VNP15A2H: LAI/FPAR 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid

NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP15A2H
Dataset Availability
2012-01-17T00:00:00Z–2024-09-21T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
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ee.ImageCollection("NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP15A2H")
Tags
land nasa noaa surface viirs

Description

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) Version 1 data product provides information about the vegetative canopy layer at 500 meter resolution (VNP15A2H). The VIIRS sensor is located onboard the NOAA/NASA joint Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite. LAI is an index that quantifies the one-sided leaf area of a canopy, while FPAR is the fraction of incoming solar energy absorbed through photosynthesis at 400 to 700 nanometers. This product is intentionally designed after the Terra and Aqua Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LAI/FPAR operational algorithm to promote the continuity of the Earth Observation System (EOS) mission.

Documentation:

Bands

Resolution
500 meters

Bands

Name Units Description
Fpar

Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation.

FparExtra_QC

Pass-through Quality Control (QC) for FPAR

FparLai_QC

Quality for LAI and FPAR

FparStdDev

Standard deviation of FPAR

Lai Area fraction

Leaf Area Index

LaiStdDev Area fraction

Standard deviation for LAI

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

LP DAAC NASA data are freely accessible; however, when an author publishes these data or works based on the data, it is requested that the author cite the datasets within the text of the publication and include a reference to them in the reference list.

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('NASA/VIIRS/002/VNP15A2H')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2022-11-01', '2022-12-01'));

var visualization = {
  bands: ['Lai'],
  min: [0],
  max: [4],
  palette: [
    'a50026',
    'd73027',
    'f46d43',
    'fdae61',
    'fee08b',
    'ffffbf',
    'd9ef8b',
    'a6d96a',
    '66bd63',
    '1a9850',
    '006837',
  ]
};
Map.setCenter(41.2, 38.84, 3);
Map.addLayer(dataset, visualization, 'Leaf Area Index (LAI)');
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