Standard Data Products

The PhenoCam standard data products are described in detail in the following paper:

Richardson, A.D., K. Hufkens, T. Milliman, D.M. Aubrecht, M. Chen, J.M. Gray, M.R. Johnston, T.F. Keenan, S.T. Klosterman, M. Kosmala, E.K. Melaas, M.A. Friedl, and S. Frolking. 2018. Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery. Scientific Data 5, Article number: 180028. doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.28

A brief description of these files is given below:

• Site Metadata Files
• ROI List Files
• ROI Image Statistics file
• GCC 1-day and 3-day Summary Files

There are jupyter notebooks showing how to read the standard files in both R and Python. You can find the notebooks here.

For the upcoming release 3 of the PhenoCam Data Set the following files will also be produced when the IR image and image metadata are available:

• IR ROI Image Statistics file
• Camera NDVI ROI (RGB/IR Image Pair) Statistics file
• Camera NDVI 1-day and 3-day Summary Files