Landsat Surface Reflectance for CONUS. NPP is the amount of
carbon captured by plants in an ecosystem, after accounting for losses due to
respiration. NPP is calculated using the MOD17 algorithm (see MOD17 User
Guide) with
Landsat Surface Reflectance, gridMET, and the National Land Cover Database.
Version 0.2.0
The Landsat Net Primary Production (NPP) CONUS dataset estimates NPP using
Landsat Surface Reflectance for CONUS. NPP is the amount of
carbon captured by plants in an ecosystem, after accounting for losses due to
respiration. NPP is calculated using the MOD17 algorithm (see MOD17 User
Guide) with
Landsat Surface Reflectance, gridMET, and the National Land Cover Database.
Name | Description | Gee Unit | Gee Scale |
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annualNPP | Annual net primary production | kg*C/m^2 | 0.0001 |
QC | Percentage of gap-filled Landsat 16-day composites. Gaps are caused by missing data, high cloud contamination, and/or erroneous pixels. A value of 255 indicates incomplete data due to failure of the gap-filling method. | % |
Providers | |
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University of Montana Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG) (producer, licensor) | |
Google Earth Engine (host) | |
STAC Version | 0.6.0 |
Keywords | conus, gridmet_derived, landsat, mod17, nlcd_derived, npp, photosynthesis, production, productivity, yearly |
License | proprietary |
Temporal Extent | 12/31/1985, 4:00:00 PM - now |
Citation | Robinson, N.P., B.W. Allred, W.K. Smith, M.O. Jones, A. Moreno, T.A. Erickson, D.E. Naugle, and S.W. Running. 2018. Terrestrial primary production for the conterminous United States derived from Landsat 30 m and MODIS 250 m. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi: [https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.74](https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.74) |
Type | image_collection |
GSD | metersm |
Platform | Landsat 5 |
Instrument | ETM |
Cadence | year |