Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse biomes using Version 2.0 of the PhenoCam Dataset
- Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States). School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems ; Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States). Center for Ecosystem Science and Society; Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States). School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems ; Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States). Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
- Ghent Univ., Ghent (Belgium). Faculty of Bioscience Engineering; National Centre for Scientific Research-Mixed Organizations (CNRS-UMR), Paris (France)
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Earth Systems Research Center
- Boston Univ., MA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Environment
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Earth Systems Research Center
Monitoring vegetation phenology is critical for quantifying climate change impacts on ecosystems. We present an extensive dataset of 1783 site-years of phenological data derived from PhenoCam network imagery from 393 digital cameras, situated from tropics to tundra across a wide range of plant functional types, biomes, and climates. Most cameras are located in North America. Every half hour, cameras upload images to the PhenoCam server. Images are displayed in near-real time and provisional data products, including timeseries of the Green Chromatic Coordinate (Gcc), are made publicly available through the project web page (https://phenocam.sr.unh.edu/webcam/gallery/). Processing is conducted separately for each plant functional type in the camera field of view. The PhenoCam Dataset v2.0, described here, has been fully processed and curated, including outlier detection and expert inspection, to ensure high quality data. This dataset can be used to validate satellite data products, to evaluate predictions of land surface models, to interpret the seasonality of ecosystem-scale CO2 and H2O flux data, and to study climate change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016011
- OSTI ID:
- 1802809
- Journal Information:
- Scientific Data, Vol. 6, Issue 1; ISSN 2052-4463
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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