Nieuwsbericht 16 December 2019

New Pan-European High Resolution Service

High Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (HR-VPP) monitoring

We are proud to share the news that we’ve been granted the European Environment Agency (EEA) Tender on High Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (HR-VPP) monitoring.

This new Copernicus Pan-European High Resolution service will deliver, based on Sentinel-2 data, continuously 10 m Vegetation Indices, their derived Seasonal Trajectories and Phenology and Productivity Metrics over the 39 EEA member states.

These new products capture the periodic plant life cycle events and are important to characterize ecosystems and their functions, and can be used for a variety of applications. The product can be used:

as an indicator of climate change
as an approximation of growing season biomass
to assess ecosystem response to drought
to contribute to agricultural and crop monitoring

VITO (Belgium) is the prime contractor of the HRL-VPP consortium together with Lund University (Sweden), ZAMG (Austria), EOLAB (Spain) and with support from Malmö University (Sweden) and kHufkens Consulting (Belgium).