HR-VPP - High Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity
Webinar designed to provide the knowledge and tools needed to calculate Vegetation Indices and Biophysical Variables.
When
Feb 19, 2026 from 14.00 to 15.00
Time zone: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact name
Hosting organisation
European Environment Agency
CLMS is pleased to invite you to a hands-on webinar on 19 February 2026, demonstrating how to calculate Vegetation Indices and Biophysical Variables using dedicated Jupyter Notebooks.
Some of you may have noticed that datasets from the Vegetation Phenology and Productivity (HR-VPP) product suite were removed from CLMS platforms. In response, this webinar aims to provide the knowledge and tools needed to calculate these variables independently using Sentinel-2 data.
The webinar will provide guidance on how to calculate:
- Leaf Area Index (LAI)
- Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fAPAR)
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
- Plant Phenology Index (PPI)
To facilitate this process, the Jupyter Notebooks are already available and can be easily customised to suit specific needs and areas of interest.
Agenda:
- Welcome, Goals of the webinar (Tim Ng - VITO)
- Importance of vegetation indicators for monitoring/reporting and user needs (Luca Battistella - EEA)
- What CDSE is, data access context, typical input data, practical considerations (cloud masking, compositing), openEO overview, key concepts (data cubes, processes), notebooks as reproducible workflows, scaling and exports (Hans Vanrompay - VITO)
- VIs calculation: NDVI, LAI, fAPAR and PPI notebooks presentation (Victor Verhaert – VITO)
- Q&A - All