TheĀ Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE)Ā is the official access point and cloud processing platform for Sentinel imagery. But not all stakeholders want a satellite image: for many users, data processing is out of reach, and they want direct quantitative results such as land cover or bio-physical quantities. The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) delivers calibrated products for land management, such as soil moisture, temperature, water quality and vegetation characteristics. The global products of the CLMS are now available directly within CDSE using OData, STAC, and S3, but also for processing with the Sentinel Hub APIs and even for visualisation in the Copernicus Browser. This means that users who are not experts in analysing satellite imagery can request these datasets directly and create new products based on them. The OGC Services seem to be particularly popular for these datasets: CDSE can be used to integrate not only satellite images but also CLMS products directly into web maps, GIS software and client-facing applications.
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The available datasets include:
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- Soil moisture and soil water index,
- Snow cover and snow water equivalent,
- Land surface temperature in hourly time steps (!) together with the Thermal Condition Index,
- Vegetation properties including Fractional Cover, Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation and Leaf Area Index
- Gross Primary Productivity, Net Primary Productivity and Dry Matter Productivity for vegetation
- Land surface phenology based on yearly time series
- NDVI and NDVI statistics
- Burnt area maps
- Water bodies extent and water quality
- Lake river ice extent
We trust that these datasets will radically shorten the path from information to knowledge for many applications related to environmental monitoring, spatial planning or land management.
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