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Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) - AVHRR

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 21/03/2026

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These data describe the Australia-wide, monthly fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation absorbed by vegetation (fPAR) derived from Advance Very High Resolution Radiometer data spanning July 1981 to Oct 2011. FPAR is linearly related to fractional foliage cover. Here fPAR is split into that of persistent vegetation and of recurrent vegetation, which represent non-deciduous perennial vegetation and annual, ephemeral and deciduous vegetation, respectively. Data have been processed using the "invariant cover triangle" method to remove the majority of errors introduced by sensor calibration and change-over effects.

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Field Value
Title Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) - AVHRR
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/325f1138-d847-408a-a522-e781fcd6d839
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Randall.Donohue@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/07/1981 - 31/10/2011
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        110.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -45.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -45.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) - AVHRR". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/fraction-of-photosynthetically-active-radiation-fpar-avhrr