Review of Available Products of Leaf Area Index and Their Suitability over the Formerly Soviet Central Asia
Table 3
Available LAI products with global coverage.
Sensor
Coverage
Project/product
Spatial resolution
Temporal resolution
Temporal availability
AVHRR
Global
ISLSCP
1° (×km)
Monthly
1987-1988
NOAA-9
and NOAA-11
AVHRR
Global
Boston University
0.5° (×km)
Monthly
07/1981 to 05/2001
AVHRR
Global
Boston University
16 km
Monthly
07/1981 to 05/2001
AVHRR
Global
Ecoclimap
1 km
Monthly
1992 to 1993
1997
VEGETATION
Global
Cyclopes
1 km
10 days
1999 to 2003
VEGETATION
Global
Geoland
0.5°
10 days
2002 to 2003
VEGETATION
Global
Globcarbon
1 km/10 km/0.25°/0.5°
10 days
1998 to 2007
ATSR
POLDER
Global
Polder-1
6 km
10 days
1996 to 1997
POLDER
Global
Polder-2
6 km
10 days
2003
MODIS
Global
MOD15A2
1 km
Daily and 8 days
2000 until present
TERRA/AQUA
MODIS
Global
MOD15A3
1 km
4 days
July 2002 until present
TERRA/AQUA combined
NASA: national aeronautics and space administration. AVHRR: advanced very high resolution radiometer. ISLSCP: international land surface climatology project. MODIS: moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer. POLDER: polarization and directionality of the earth’s reflectance. VEGETATION: vegetation sensor aboard spot4 and spot5 satellites.
