Training Module on Monitoring Vegetation From Space

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• 5 - Vegetation Products
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• 5.1 - Definitions
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• 5.2 - Spatial Coverage of the LSA SAF Vegetation Products
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• 5.3 - Temporal Resolution & Data Availability
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• 5.4 - Product Content
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• 5.5 - Algorithms
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• 5.6 - Overall quality of LSA SAF Vegetation Products
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• 5.7 - Scientific validation of LSA SAF products
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• 5.8 - Comparison of LSA SAF to Polar-Orbiter Derived Products and Applications
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• 5.9 - Further Applications of LSA SAF Vegetation Products

5.4 - Product Content

The FVC, LAI and fAPAR products contain 3 datasets each, comprising the following fields:

• a vegetation field;
• an error estimate field;
• a quality control information field.

The data is coded in HDF5 format. The HDF5 files in Land SAF system have the following structure:

• A common set of attributes for all kind of data, containing general information about the data;
• A dataset for the parameter values;
• Additional datasets for metadata (e.g., quality flags, error field).