Data from: Estimation of woody and herbaceous leaf area index in Sub-Saharan Africa using MODIS data ...

• Main Authors: Kahiu, Milkah N, Hanan, Niall P
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: Woody; Africa; Leaf Area Index; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v5s0j; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.v5s0j

Savannas are widespread global biomes covering ~20% of terrestrial ecosystems on all continents except Antarctica. These ecosystems play a critical role in regulating terrestrial carbon cycle, ecosystem productivity, and the hydrological cycle and contribute to human livelihoods and biodiversity conservation. Despite the importance of savannas in ecosystem processes and human well-being, the presence of mixed woody and herbaceous components at scales much fin-er than most medium and coarse resolution satellite imagery poses significant challenges to their effective representation in remote sensing and modeling of vegetation dynamics. Although pre-vious studies have attempted to separate woody and herbaceous components, the focus on greenness indices and fractional cover provides little insight into spatio-temporal variability in woody and herbaceous vegetation structure, in particular, leaf area index (LAI). This paper pre-sents a method to partition 1km spatial resolution Moderate Resolution Imaging ... : MCD15A2.2003_2015.Africa.V02.Animation.gifData S2: LAI animation for years 2003 to 2015 contains aggregate, woody and partitioned LAI mosaicked for Sub-Saharan Africa, presented in gif format. The animation shows the estimates of aggregate LAI and partitioned woody and herbaceous LAI estimates for each 8-day interval during the entire 13-year time-period, Filename: MCD15A2.2003_2015.Africa.V02.Animation.gif.zip. An online version of the animation can be accessed here: https://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/content/modis-lai-partitioning.Average Aggregate Leaf Area IndexMODIS Aggregate ("total") Leaf Area Index for sub-Saharan AfricaMCD15A2.2003_15.Africa.V02.LAIA.Climatologies.nc.zipWoody Leaf Area Index8-day Average Partitioned woody leaf Area Index for sub-Saharan Africa for years 2003-2015MCD15A2.2003_15.Africa.V02.LAIW.Climatologies.nc.zipHerbaceous Leaf Area Index8-day average partitioned herbaceous leaf Area Index for sub-Saharan Africa for years ...