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MuSLI Multi-Source Land Surface Phenology Yearly North America 30 m V011

Metadata Updated: July 10, 2025

The Multi-Source Land Surface Phenology (LSP) Yearly North America 30 meter (m) Version 1.1 product (MSLSP) provides a Land Surface Phenology product for North America derived from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) data. Data from the combined Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Sentinel-2A and 2B Multispectral Instrument (MSI) provides the user community with dates of phenophase transitions, including the timing of greenup, maturity, senescence, and dormancy at 30m spatial resolution. These data sets are useful for a wide range of applications, including ecosystem and agro-ecosystem modeling, monitoring the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability and extreme events, crop-type discrimination, and land cover, land use, and land cover change mapping. Provided in the MSLSP product are layers for percent greenness, onset greenness dates, Enhanced Vegetative Index (EVI2) amplitude, and maximum EVI2, and data quality information for up to two phenological cycles per year. For areas where the data values are missing due to cloud cover or other reasons, the data gaps are filled with good quality values from the year directly preceding or following the product year. A low resolution browse image representing maximum EVI is also available for each MSLSP30NA granule.Known Issues Data are sparse in 2016 and early 2017, as Sentinel-2B was not yet launched, and Sentinel-2A was not fully operational, leading to poorer quality retrievals of phenology in 2016 and 2017. However, poor quality pixels can be masked with Quality Assurance (QA) flags. Disturbance has not been explicitly accounted for or mapped, which can lead to premature detections of senescence and dormancy when sharp spectral changes occur. Pixels with more than two growth cycles per year (e.g., alfalfa fields) may not be accurately characterized, especially if they occur in rapid succession.Improvements/Changes from Previous Version Modest changes were made to the spline fitting algorithm used to estimate the MSLSP30NA product in V011. Only gaps greater than 20 days were filled using observations from the outside of the target year to reduce the computational burden. Sensitivity analyses demonstrated that this change had negligible impact on product results. * The Quality Assurance (QA) fields were updated to reflect the changes in the gap-filling. Version 1 included QA values from 1-7, whereas Version 1.1 includes QA values from 1-6, 9, and 10.* Peak date corresponding to the maximum EVI2 value in a growth cycle (Peak and Peak_2) and number of days with clear observations in calendar year (numObS) layers were added.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date April 9, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 10, 2025

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Metadata Created Date April 9, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 10, 2025
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