In the frame of AMMA (African Monsoon Multi-disciplinary Analysis) project, Postel customise existing FAPAR products in order to standardize them in terms of projection, spatial resolution, and area coverage, and to make them easier to use by modellers community. Consequently, customisation consists in resampling products on pre-defined grids, and extracting areas of interest, which are :
  West Africa : from 25°W to 25°E, from 5°S to 20°N
  Atlantic : from 60°W to 40°E, from 35°S to 35°N

Postel a generated customized products, which can be downloaded with their readme files. These products are :
  monthly MODIS FAPAR (2000-present) (MOD15_BU_1KM) provided by Boston University, resampled on a regular grid at 0.01° resolution over West Africa area.
  monthly AVHRR FAPAR (1981-2001) from PATHFINDER AVHRR Land (PAL), provided also by Boston University, resampled on a regular grid at 0.25° resolution over Atlantic area (images below).
  10-day POLDER-1 (1996-1997) and POLDER-2 (2003) FAPAR, resampled on a regular grid at 0.05° resolution over West Africa area.

Monthly AVHRR FAPAR from 1981 to 2001 over the Atlantic area of AMMA project.

These products are also available through the AMMASAT database in NetCDF format.