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Digital Earth Africa Fractional Cover
Fractional cover (FC) describes the landscape in terms of coverage by green vegetation, non-green vegetation (including deciduous trees during autumn, dry grass, etc.) and bare soil. It provides insight into how areas of dry vegetation and/or bare soil and green vegetation are changing over time. The product is derived from Landsat satellite data, using an algorithm developed by the [Joint Remote Sensing Research Program](https://www.jrsrp.org.au/). Digital Earth Africa's FC service has two comp
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Licence: DE Africa makes this data available under the Creative Commons Attribute 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Evidence quality: 27
Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
Evidence
- AWS resource:
arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-services/fc_ls, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-services/fc_ls_summary_annual, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-services-inventory - https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-fractional-cover/
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