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Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation website


This site is managed by Nature Conservation and Observations unit (JRC.D.6) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Directorate D - Sustainable Resources of the European Commission (EC).

This web site presents various activities for monitoring terrestrial surfaces retrieved from Earth Observation that are described and presented through the various pages of this web site.

Global FAPAR STD products from 2003 to 2021
Global FAPAR products using JRC Two-stream Inversion Package (TIP) until December 2022.

Global averaged FAPAR on a monthly and annual temporal basis from 1998 until 2021
Global averaged FAPAR on a monthly and annual temporal basis from 1998 until 2022.

The site provides an interface to FAPAR maps, products and specific tools (only if you are registered).



Earth Land Information System


The Earth Land Information System (ELIS) provides information derived from space data. It includes the FAPAR and Leaf Area Index (LAI) values and their anomalies generated from MODIS surface albedo products (MODIS surface albedo page) using the Two-stream Inversion Package (TIP) at 1 km of spatial resolution.


Datasets available until

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"The designations employed and the presentation of material on the map do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the European Union concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries."


Latest publications


Brown L.A., Morris H., Meier C., Knohl A., Lanconelli C., Gobron N., Dash J., and Danson F.
Stage 1 Validation of Plant Area Index From the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation.

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2023, 20, p. 1-5.

 Online
Dunn R. J. H., Miller J., Willett K. M., and Gobron
2023: Global Climate [in "State of the Climate in 2022"].

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2023, 104 (9), p. S11-S145.

 Online
Duveiller G., and Gobron
2023: Terrestrial surface albedo dynamics [in “State of the Climate in 2022”].

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2023, 104 (9), p. S102-S103.

 Online
Gobron
2023: Terrestrial vegetation dynamics [in “State of the Climate in 2022”].

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2023, 104 (9), p. S103-S104.

 Online

All publications 

Related activities

Supporting policies

CO2 emissions

Main sources regarding European operational CO2 monitoring and verification support capacity.

Quality Control

Land products quality control including benchmark against third-party data.

Essential Climate Variables

Update and expand the JRC's benchmark Earth Observation (EO) created to support land and climate studies, and to interdependently address the fitness-for-purpose.


Highlights and news

The Highlight and news page will be constantly updated with information on the status of FAPAR activities.


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