French Southern Territories: 10-Day VIIRS Vegetation Anomaly GeoTIFFs

Copernicus provides 10-day time composite geospatial data of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) anomalies for the French Southern Territories. The data utilizes Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensors to track vegetation health and agricultural drought indicators as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Detecting agricultural drought by analyzing FAPAR anomaly values across the 10-day composites
• Assessing vegetation greenness using the 0 to 1 biophysical dimensionless quantity scale
• Mapping spatial distribution of plant health within the French Southern Territories using VIIRS sensor data

Strengths

• Uses VIIRS sensor data for high-frequency 10-day composites
• Standardized FAPAR scale (0 to 1) for biophysical monitoring
• Produced by Copernicus, a major Earth observation program

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted to the French Southern Territories
• Absence of tabular metadata or specific column definitions beyond the raster values
• 10-day aggregation masks daily fluctuations in vegetation absorption

Provenance

Source

Copernicus

Collection Method

Satellite sensor (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite - VIIRS)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

French Southern Territories