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Division 4 TECHNICAL SERVICE PORTFOLIO

United Kingdom

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The Copernicus Global Land component, with the Systematic Monitoring element, shall provide a set of global biophysical variables describing systematically the state and the evolution of the vegetation and soils, the energy budget at the surface and the water cycle. The Vegetation product family shall include the following variables:

  1. (a)

    Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI);

  2. (b)

    Leaf Area Index (LAI);

  3. (c)

    Fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FaPar);

  4. (d)

    Fraction of Vegetation Cover (Fcover);

  5. (e)

    Vegetation Condition Index (VCI);

  6. (f)

    Vegetation Productivity Index (VPI);

  7. (g)

    Greenness Evolution Index (GEI);

  8. (h)

    Dry Matter Productivity (DMP);

  9. (i)

    Phenology metrics (PHENO);

  10. (j)

    Evapotranspiration (ET);

  11. (k)

    Radiation fluxes;

  12. (l)

    Global Land Cover (GLC);

  13. (m)

    Burnt areas (BA).

The Energy budget product family shall include:

  1. (a)

    Top of Canopy Reflectance(ToC-R);

  2. (b)

    Surface Albedo (SA);

  3. (c)

    Land Surface Temperature (LST).

The Water product family shall include:

  1. (a)

    Surface Soil Moisture (SSM);

  2. (b)

    Soil water Index (SWI);

  3. (c)

    Water bodies (WB).

The Cryosphere product family shall include:

  1. (a)

    Snow extent (SE);

  2. (b)

    Snow water equivalent (SWE).

The Lake related product family shall include:

  1. (a)

    Lake ice coverage;

  2. (b)

    Lake surface water temperature;

  3. (c)

    Lake and river water level;

  4. (d)

    Lake surface reflectance;

  5. (e)

    Lake turbidity;

  6. (f)

    Lake trophic state.

The Hot Spot related product family shall be based on high and very high resolution images, from approximately 1 to 30 meters spatial resolution, with a change assessment frequency between 1 to 20 years, acquired for areas of interest.

The pan-European component shall produce satellite image mosaics, land cover/land use (LC/LU) information in the Corine Land Cover data, and the High Resolution Layers.

  1. (a)

    The High-Resolution and Very High Resolution Image Mosaics shall be seamless pan-European ortho-rectified raster mosaics based on satellite imagery covering 39 countries.

  2. (b)

    The Corine Land Cover shall be provided on a regular basis. The time-series shall also include a change layer, highlighting changes in land cover and land-use.

  3. (c)

    CLC+ shall provide the next generation CLC product, reducing the Minimum Mapping Unit to +/– 0,5 ha, and applying a data model built upon the EAGLE concept.

  4. (d)

    The high-resolution layers (HRL) shall be raster-based datasets which provide information about different land cover characteristics that is complementary to land-cover mapping datasets. HRLs shall provide some of the main land cover characteristics: impervious (sealed) surfaces; forest areas (tree cover, crown closure density and leaf type); grasslands; wetness and water bodies; small woody features.

The local component shall provide specific and more detailed information that is complementary to the information obtained through the Pan-European component. The local component shall focus on different types of hotspots, i.e. areas that are prone to specific environmental challenges and problems. It shall be based on very high resolution imagery (2,5 × 2,5 m pixels) in combination with other available datasets (high and medium resolution images) covering the pan-European area.

Local component products shall comprise:

  1. (a)

    Urban Atlas shall provide pan-European comparable land use and land cover data (including the third dimension) covering a number of Functional Urban Areas (FUA).

  2. (b)

    Riparian Zones shall address land cover and land use in areas along rivers.

  3. (c)

    The Natura 2000 (N2K) sites.