Abstract
Seven years of the MERIS Global Vegetation Index (MGVI) data have been obtained for a national-scale study of vegetation seasonality in Ireland from 2003 to 2009. The selection of an appropriate composite period for the daily MGVI data was guided by in situ observations of vegetation spring greening and cloud cover from two representative point locations across the island. A period of 10 days was selected as an optimum, minimising the amount of cloud cover across the island while still capturing vegetation seasonality change. Short-term variation in the MGVI time series after time-compositing had been applied was found to be unrelated to vegetation dynamics, suggesting that external factors, such as cloud cover compromise the quality of daily MGVI values. A verification study, using the METEOSAT Cloud Mask (CLM), was conducted to validate this hypothesis. The results suggest that for 7 out of 10 MGVI images over half the values may be in error due to the presence of cloud cover, indicating that the MERIS ...
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