VEGETATION PHENOLOGICAL FEATURES FROM DAILY MODIS NDVI TIME SERIES

摘要

This article presents methods to extract phenologicalrninformation from MODIS NDVI time series includingrnquality indicators. Phenological features are tworndifferent start dates of growing season, the date ofrnmaximum growth, the end of growing season and tworngrowing season lengths. In order to decrease data gapsrndue to cloud cover, averaged time series werernconstructed for administrative areas and different landrncover types. So far, the method has been applied forrnyears 2001 - 2010 and Baltic Sea drainage basin.