Digital Earth Pacific Fractional Land Cover (Landsat, 30 m)

Description

Fractional Land Cover represents the percentage of bare soil, photosynthetic vegetation, and non-photosynthetic vegetation across the Pacific region, derived from multi-mission Landsat surface reflectance imagery using spectral unmixing. The dataset supports long-term environmental monitoring, land cover change analysis, ecosystem monitoring, trend analysis, and land degradation assessment. It comprises two products:

• Scene-based Fractional Land Cover: per-scene estimates of bare soil (bs), photosynthetic vegetation (pv) and non-photosynthetic vegetation (npv) fractions, plus unmixing error (ue), from 1984 onwards.
• Annual Summary: yearly statistical summaries (10th, 50th and 90th percentiles) of each cover fraction, along with counts of valid observations.

Update Frequency

Scene-based data is added as new Landsat scenes are acquired; summaries are updated annually

License

Digital Earth Pacific Data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Documentation

https://digitalearthpacific.org/#/applications

Managed By

Pacific Community (SPC)

See all datasets managed by Pacific Community (SPC).

Contact

dep@spc.int

How to Cite

Digital Earth Pacific Fractional Land Cover (Landsat, 30 m) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/dep-fractional-cover.

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• Digital Earth Pacific Map by Digital Earth Pacific Contributors
  
• Digital Earth Pacific STAC Browser by Digital Earth Pacific Contributors
  

Publications

• Digital Earth Pacific Open Data Access Documentation by digitalearthpacific