Leaf moisture content (live-fuel moisture content) at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth (VOD2LFMC)

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EU institutions

Updated

2022.05.20 00:00

Created

2022.05.19

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English

Keywords

earth observation, fire, LFMC, fuel moisture, LAI, VOD, satellite, Ku-band, data set

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Related paper: Forkel et al. (2022) The VOD2LFMC dataset contains estimates of leaf moisture content as defined as live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) derived from passive microwave satellite observation of vegetation optical depth (VOD). LFMC is defined as the fresh mass of a leaf over the dry mass and is expressed in %: \(LFMC = {m_{fresh}-m_{dry}\over m_{dry}}*100\%\) LFMC was estimated from the VODCA version 1 dataset of Ku-band VOD using the model approach “B” as described in Forkel et al. (2022). The file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_2000-2017.zip contains (unzipped ~ 57 GB): daily global data per month netCDF files a README file Ancillary file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_support-by-obs.nc Grid, time and variable definitions: Grid-name: Geographic Lat/Lon Pixel-size: 1/4 degrees Size-x: 1440 Size-y: 557 Time period: February 2000 – July 2017 Temporal resolution: daily Variable: Live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) in % Valid-range: 0-400%

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