Green Chlorophyll Vegetation Index (GCI) - Switzerland [2020, Sentinel-2]

This dataset is an time-serie of Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data (ARD)- derived Green Chlorophyll Vegetation Index (GCI) computed from Sentinel-2 data. GCI is used to estimate the content of leaf chlorophyll in various species of plants using the forumla GCI=(b8/b3) – 1. See Gitelson et al. (2003) DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016450 The chlorophyll content reflects the physiological state of vegetation; it decreases in stressed plants and can therefore be used as a measurement of vegetation health. GCI values ranges from -1 to +1. Values are provided as integer and multiplied by 1000 Metrics: annual (_annual) and seasonal (_spring; _summer; _autumn; _winter) mean (_nanmean), standard dev (_nanstd), min (_nanmin), max (_nanmax), median (_nanmedian), and amplitude (_range) Data format: GeoTiff This dataset has been genereated with the Swiss Data Cube (http://www.swissdatacube.ch) in the frame of the ValPar.CH project

Organizational unit

Swiss Data Cube

Type

Dataset

DOI

10.26037/yareta:yoeeninfy5d4fgs4eqm3grha6m

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords

vegetation, sentinel-2, chlorophyll, valpar