Skip to main content

Description

This data set provides a time series of vegetation phenological observations for 393 sites across diverse ecosystems of the world (mostly North America) from 2000-2018. The phenology data were derived from conventional visible-wavelength automated digital camera imagery collected through the PhenoCam Network at each site. From each acquired image, RGB (red, green, blue) color channel information was extracted and means and other statistics calculated for a region-of-interest (ROI) that delineates an area of specific vegetation type. From the high-frequency (typically, 30 minute) imagery collected over several years, time series characterizing vegetation color, including canopy greenness, plus greenness rising and greenness falling transition dates, were summarized over 1- and 3-day intervals.

Product Summary

Platforms
FIELD INVESTIGATION
Instruments
CAMERA
Spatial Extent

N: 71.28 S: -22.97 E: 119.22 W: -158.15

Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1999-11-16 to 2018-12-31
Concept ID
C2764826583-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Plant Characteristics ,
Plant Phenology ,
Vegetation Cover ,
Vegetation Index

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Seyednasrollah, B., Young, A. M., Hufkens, K., Milliman, T., Friedl, M. A., Frolking, S., Richardson, A. D., Abraha, M., Allen, D. W., Apple, M., Arain, M. A., Baker, J., Baker, J. M., Baldocchi, D., Bernacchi, C. J., Bhattacharjee, J., Blanken, P., Bosch, D. D., Boughton, R., … Zona, D. (2019). PhenoCam Dataset v2.0: Vegetation Phenology from Digital Camera Imagery, 2000-2018 (Version 2). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1674 Date Accessed: 2026-05-02

Documents

Publications Citing This Dataset

Filters
Title Year Author Topic
Enhanced effect of warming on the leaf-onset date of boreal deciduous broadleaf forest Li, Wenyu, Lu, Hui, Chen, Jing M., Piao, Shilong, Keenan, Trevor F., Miao, Guofang, Liu, Qiang, Zang, Zhou, Xu, Nan, Liu, Jane, Cheng, Qu, Wang, Han, Wang, Rong, Ji, Wenjie, Zhu, Peng, Li, Congcong, Xin, Qinchuan, Gong, Peng Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Potential of Sentinel-1 time-series data for monitoring the phenology of Schlund, Michael Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Over three decades, and counting, of near-surface turbulent flux measurements from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility Sullivan, Ryan C., Billesbach, David P., Biraud, Sebastien, Chan, Stephen, Hart, Richard, Keeler, Evan, Kyrouac, Jenni, Pal, Sujan, Pekour, Mikhail, Sullivan, Sara L., Theisen, Adam, Tuftedal, Matt, Cook, David R. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
PhenoCam Guidelines for Phenological Measurement and Analysis in an Sunoj, S., Igathinathane, C., Saliendra, Nicanor, Hendrickson, John, Archer, David, Liebig, Mark Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
An enhanced phenology dataset for global drylands from 2001 to 2019 Dong, Yuqi, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Li, Tian, Feng, Xie, Qiaoyun, Chen, Yiyang, Ruan, Linlin, Zhang, Bo Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Anisotropy, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Vegetation Index, Plant Phenological Changes, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover
A vegetation phenology dataset developed by integrating multiple sources using the reliability ensemble averaging method Cui, Yishuo, Chen, Shouzhi, Gong, Yufeng, Li, Mingwei, Jia, Zitong, Zhou, Yuyu, Fu, Yongshuo H. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Plant Phenological Changes, Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Spatiotemporal Vegetation Dynamics, Forest Loss, and Recovery: Ignatius, Amber R., Annis, Ashley N., Helton, Casey A., Reeb, Alec W., Ricke, Dylan F. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Fire Ecology, Biomass Burning, Wildfires, Fire Occurrence, Burned Area, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Empirical Dynamic Modeling Reveals Complexity of Methane Fluxes in a Hill, Andrew C., Schafer, Karina V. R., Forbrich, Inke, Vargas, Rodrigo Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID): Community Insights for Feldman, Andrew F., Reed, Sasha, Amaral, Cibele, BabstKostecka, Alicja, Babst, Flurin, Biederman, Joel, Devine, Charles, Fu, Zheng, Green, Julia K., Guo, Jessica, Hanan, Niall P., Kokaly, Raymond, Litvak, Marcy, MacBean, Natasha, Moore, David, Ojima, Dennis, Poulter, Benjamin, Scott, Russell L., Smith, William K., Swap, Robert, Tucker, Compton J., Wang, Lixin, Watts, Jennifer, Wessels, Konrad, Zhang, Fangyue, Zhang, Wen Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Thermal Forcing Versus Chilling? Misspecification of Temperature Gao, Xiaojie, Richardson, Andrew D., Friedl, Mark A., Moon, Minkyu, Gray, Josh M. Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Upper Mississippi River BasinMorris Johnson, Jane M. F., Helseth, Christina M., Weyers, Sharon, Papanicolaou, Thanos, Busche, Dennis Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Mapping Phenology of Complicated Wetland Landscapes through Harmonizing Fan, Chang, Yang, Jilin, Zhao, Guosong, Dai, Junhu, Zhu, Mengyao, Dong, Jinwei, Liu, Ruoqi, Zhang, Geli Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Leaf phenology as an indicator of ecological integrity Spafford, Lynsay, MacDougall, Andrew H., Vitasse, Yann, Filippa, Gianluca, Richardson, Andrew, Steenberg, James, Lever, J. Jelle Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
phenoC++: An open-source tool for retrieving vegetation phenology from satellite remote sensing data Ruan, Yongjian, Ruan, Baozhen, Xin, Qinchuan, Liao, Xi, Jing, Fengrui, Zhang, Xinchang Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
A robust and unified land surface phenology algorithm for diverse biomes and growth cycles in China by using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 imagery Yang, Jilin, Dong, Jinwei, Liu, Luo, Zhao, Miaomiao, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Li, Xuecao, Dai, Junhu, Wang, Huanjiong, Wu, Chaoyang, You, Nanshan, Fang, Shibo, Pang, Yong, He, Yingli, Zhao, Guosong, Xiao, Xiangming, Ge, Quansheng Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Climatedriven shifts in leaf senescence are greater for boreal species than temperate species in the Acadian Forest region in contrast to leaf emergence shifts Spafford, Lynsay, MacDougall, Andrew, Steenberg, James Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Precipitation Amount, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, Shortwave Radiation, Snow Water Equivalent, Vapor Pressure
A soil-air temperature model to determine the start of season phenology of deciduous forests Klinek, Lily, Au, Jessie, Wong, Christopher YS, Magney, Troy S, Baldocchi, Dennis Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Continuous increase in evaporative demand shortened the growing season of European ecosystems in the last decade Rahmati, Mehdi, Graf, Alexander, Poppe Teran, Christian, Amelung, Wulf, Dorigo, Wouter, Franssen, Harrie-Jan Hendricks, Montzka, Carsten, Or, Dani, Sprenger, Matthias, Vanderborght, Jan, Verhoest, Niko E. C., Vereecken, Harry Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent, Runoff, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover
Toward 30 m Fine-Resolution Land Surface Phenology Mapping at a Large Ruan, Yongjian, Ruan, Baozhen, Zhang, Xinchang, Ao, Zurui, Xin, Qinchuan, Sun, Ying, Jing, Fengrui Reflectance, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Nitrogen, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Tree Rings, Forests, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Carbon
A background-free phenology index for improved monitoring of vegetation phenology Xie, Zhiying, Zhu, Wenquan, He, Bangke, Qiao, Kun, Zhan, Pei, Huang, Xin Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
A minimally managed switchgrass ecosystem in a humid subtropical climate is a source of carbon to the atmosphere Ahlswede, Benjamin J., O'Halloran, Thomas L., Forsythe, Jeremy D., Thomas, R. Quinn Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Multiple Dimensions of Resilience: How NEON Supports Ecology and the Research Community in the Face of Compounding Disasters Robinson, Natalie, Barnett, David T., Jones, Katherine D., Stanish, Lee F., Parker, Stephanie M. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Drivers of decadal carbon fluxes across temperate ecosystems Desai, Ankur R., Murphy, Bailey A., Wiesner, Susanne, Thom, Jonathan, Butterworth, Brian J., KoupaeiAbyazani, Nikaan, Muttaqin, Andi, Paleri, Sreenath, Talib, Ammara, Turner, Jess, Mineau, James, Merrelli, Aronne, Stoy, Paul, Davis, Ken Photosynthesis, Primary Production, VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity After Autumn Snowfall and Melt Stoy, P. C., Khan, A. M., Van Dorsten, K., Sauer, P., Weaver, T., Brookshire, E. N. J. Reflectance, Anisotropy, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Disentangling the Relative Drivers of Seasonal Evapotranspiration Across a ContinentalScale Aridity Gradient Young, Adam M., Friedl, Mark A., Novick, Kimberly, Scott, Russell L., Moon, Minkyu, Frolking, Steve, Li, Xiaolu, Carrillo, Carlos M., Richardson, Andrew D. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Exploring discrepancies between in situ phenology and remotely derived Donnelly, Alison, Yu, Rong, Jones, Katherine, Belitz, Michael, Li, Bonan, Duffy, Katharyn, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Wang, Jianmin, Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Gerst, Katherine L., Li, Daijiang, Kaddoura, Youssef, Zhu, Kai, Morisette, Jeffrey, Ramey, Colette, Smith, Kathleen Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Reflectance
Assessing the Accuracy of Forest Phenological Extraction from Sentinel-1 C-Band Backscatter Measurements in Deciduous and Coniferous Forests Ling, Yuxiang, Teng, Shiwen, Liu, Chao, Dash, Jadunandan, Morris, Harry, Pastor-Guzman, Julio Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Comparison of the Two Most Common Phenology Algorithms Imbedded in Land Surface Models Chen, Baozhang Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Trace gas fluxes from tidal salt marsh soils: implications for carbonsulfur biogeochemistry Capooci, Margaret, Vargas, Rodrigo Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Warming does not delay the start of autumnal leaf coloration but slows its progress rate Jiang, Nan, Shen, Miaogen, Ciais, Philippe, Campioli, Matteo, Penuelas, Josep, Korner, Christian, Cao, Ruyin, Piao, Shilong, Liu, Licong, Wang, Shiping, Liang, Eryuan, Delpierre, Nicolas, Soudani, Kamel, Rao, Yuhan, Montagnani, Leonardo, Hortnagl, Lukas, PaulLimoges, Eugenie, Myneni, Ranga, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Fu, Yongshuo, Sigut, Ladislav, Varlagin, Andrej, Chen, Jin, Tang, Yanhong, Zhao, Wenwu Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Reflectance, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
A method for quality management of vegetation phenophases derived from satellite remote sensing data Ruan, Yongjian, Zhang, Xinchang, Xin, Qinchuan, Sun, Ying, Ao, Zurui, Jiang, Xin Reflectance, Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Plant Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index, Snow Water Equivalent, Soil Heat Budget, Snow Depth, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Heat Flux, Land Surface Temperature, Shortwave Radiation, Albedo, Evapotranspiration, Drainage, Precipitation Amount, Drainage
Monitoring agroecosystem productivity and phenology at a national scale: A metric assessment framework Browning, Dawn M., Russell, Eric S., Ponce-Campos, Guillermo E., Kaplan, Nicole, Richardson, Andrew D., Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Spiegal, Sheri, Saliendra, Nicanor, Alfieri, Joseph G., Baker, John, Bernacchi, Carl, Bestelmeyer, Brandon T., Bosch, David, Boughton, Elizabeth H., Boughton, Raoul K., Clark, Pat, Flerchinger, Gerald, Gomez-Casanovas, Nuria, Goslee, Sarah, Haddad, Nick M., Hoover, David, Jaradat, Abdullah, Mauritz, Marguerite, McCarty, Gregory W., Miller, Gretchen R., Sadler, John, Saha, Amartya, Scott, Russell L., Suyker, Andrew, Tweedie, Craig, Wood, Jeffrey D., Zhang, Xukai, Taylor, Shawn D. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Joint Influence Mechanism of Phenology and Climate on the Dynamics of Gross Primary Productivity: Insights From Temperate Deciduous Broadleaf Forests in North ... Xie, Zhiying, Zhu, Wenquan, Qiao, Kun, Li, Peixian, Liu, Hao Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Seasonality in aerodynamic resistance across a range of North American ecosystems Young, Adam M., Friedl, Mark A., Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Beamesderfer, Eric, Carrillo, Carlos M., Li, Xiaolu, Moon, Minkyu, Arain, M. Altaf, Baldocchi, Dennis D., Blanken, Peter D., Bohrer, Gil, Burns, Sean P., Chu, Housen, Desai, Ankur R., Griffis, Timothy J., Hollinger, David Y., Litvak, Marcy E., Novick, Kim, Scott, Russell L., Suyker, Andrew E., Verfaillie, Joseph, Wood, Jeffrey D., Richardson, Andrew D. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions From Temperate Salt Marsh Tidal Creek Trifunovic, Branimir, VazquezLule, Alma, Capooci, Margaret, Seyfferth, Angelia L., Moffat, Carlos, Vargas, Rodrigo Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Seasonal variation in the canopy color of temperate evergreen conifer forests Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Bowling, David R., Cheng, Rui, Logan, Barry A., Magney, Troy S., Frankenberg, Christian, Yang, Julia C., Young, Adam M., Hufkens, Koen, Arain, M. Altaf, Black, T. Andrew, Blanken, Peter D., Bracho, Rosvel, Jassal, Rachhpal, Hollinger, David Y., Law, Beverly E., Nesic, Zoran, Richardson, Andrew D. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Solar and sensor geometry, not vegetation response, drive satellite NDVI phenology in widespread ecosystems of the western United States Norris, Jodi R., Walker, Jessica J. Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Index
Sensitivity of deciduous forest phenology to environmental drivers: implications for climate change impacts across North America Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Young, Adam M., Li, Xiaolu, Milliman, Thomas, Ault, Toby, Frolking, Steve, Friedl, Mark, Richardson, Andrew D. Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Understanding the spring phenology of Arctic tundra using multiple satellite data products and ground observations Zheng, Jiangshan, Xu, Xiyan, Jia, Gensuo, Wu, Wenjin Reflectance, Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse biomes using Version 2.0 of the PhenoCam Dataset Seyednasrollah, Bijan, Young, Adam M., Hufkens, Koen, Milliman, Tom, Friedl, Mark A., Frolking, Steve, Richardson, Andrew D. Plant Characteristics, Plant Phenology, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Index
You're viewing 40 of 40