Join us for a

Hands-On HR-VPP Webinar

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 be assisted by the High-Resolution Vegetation Phenology and Productivity production team (VITO, space4environment) and EEA Earth Observation experts, who will be ready to answer all your questions and doubts.

The webinar will provide guidance on how to calculate:

• Leaf Area Index (LAI), defined as half of the total leaf area per unit ground surface area, this index is recognised as an essential climate variable.

• Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fAPAR), which refers to the fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) that vegetation absorbs, with PAR being the portion of incoming solar radiation in the 0.4–0.7 μm wavelength range.

• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), one of the most popular VIs, it’s the normalized ratio between the red and the near infrared bands

• Plant Phenology Index (PPI), based on radiative transfer equations and computed from red and near-infrared (NIR) reflectance.

To facilitate this process, the Jupyter Notebooks are already available and can be easily customised to suit specific needs and areas of interest.

Join us on Thursday

19 February, 14:00 to 15:00 CET