Australian monthly fPAR derived from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer reflectances - version 5

These data describe the Australia-wide, monthly fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (fPAR) derived from Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer data spanning July 1981 to Oct 2011. fPAR is linearly related to fractional foliage cover. Here fPAR is split into that of persistent vegetation and of recurrent vegetation, which represent non-deciduous perennial vegetation and annual, ephemeral and deciduous vegetation, respectively. Data have been processed using the 'invariant cover triangle' method to remove the majority of errors introduced by sensor calibration and change-over effects. Data are pre-eminently suited to the analysis of long-term dynamics (trends) in vegetation cover. Data are monthly grids of 0.08 degree cell size from July 1981 onwards and of 0.01 degree from Feb 1995 onwards. Version 5 differs from the previous version in that it is current to Oct 2011 (note that values for previously existing dates may differ slightly between versions). Further details are provided in the readme file. Format Name : ENVI byte (8-bit unsigned integer) binary file Format Version: Dataset Creation Date: 2008