Vegetation plays a key role in the Earth's climate by influencing the energy and water cycles and sequestering a significant portion of carbon emissions. Aware of its importance, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Climate Change Initiative has unveiled a comprehensive set of satellite data aimed at improving climate models. This dataset focuses on leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR), which are essential for a global understanding of vegetation growth and health.<\/p>\n
The release covers observations from 2000 to 2020, integrating data from multiple sensors, including those from the SPOT satellites and ESA's Proba-V mission. Offering 1 km grid resolution over five-day intervals, it provides climate and carbon modelers with detailed, consistent time series with full uncertainty estimates and global validations of in-situ measurements. (by Erica Marchand, more at spacedaily.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vegetation plays a key role in the Earth\u2019s climate by influencing the energy and water cycles and sequestering a significant portion of carbon emissions. Recognizing its importance, the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Climate Change Initiative has presented a comprehensive satellite dataset aimed at improving climate models. The dataset focuses on leaf area index (LAI) and leaf [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}