Research project: Ground Based Observations for Validation of Copernicus Global Land Products (GBOV)

Funding Sources: £84,487

Start Date: 1/05/19

End Date: 31/03/21

Key objectives are:

• Collection of multi-year ground-based observations of high relevance for the understanding of land surface processes from existing global networks.
• Upgrade of existing sites with new instrumentation or establishing entirely new monitoring sites to close thematic or geographic gaps
• The GBOV service primarily allow the quality control of the main land products CGLS products (e.g., fAPAR, LAI ad fCover,) providing collections of multiple years of ground-based reference measurements and derived land Products (LPs).