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Suomi NPP VIIRS - Vegetation Health Index - Weekly Composite, 9/2 to 9/8/2016 - click to enlarge

Suomi NPP VIIRS - Vegetation Health Index - Weekly Composite, 9/2 to 9/8/2016 - click to enlarge

Vegetation Health

Team Lead: Xiwu "Jerry" Zhan

Product Description

  • Vegetation health (VH) is a method derivation of global vegetation condition from VIS and IR channels of afternoon operational polar-orbiting satellites
  • The method is based on three bio-physical and ecosystem laws
  • The global VH (GVH) output is produced every week
  • Briefly, algorithm includes retrieval of orbital VIS and IR, calculation of NDVI and BT, their daily and weekly mapping & development of time series, comprehensive NDVI & BT massaging and calculation of three VH indices
  • The developed products include 16 & 4 km AVHRR/GVH and 4 km VIIRS/GVH
  • High resolution (1 km) Vegetation Health Products from VIIRS for recent years(since 2015) are avalible online

Product and Data Access

Products and data:

EDR Long Term-Monitoring

Documentation

Current Operational 4 km VIIRS Global Vegetation health (GVH) generates following weekly products:

  • Vegetation Condition Index (VCI-4)
  • Temperature Condition Index (TCI-4)
  • Vegetation Health Index (VHI-4)

Coverage: Global land surface (75°N-55°S); Resolution: 0.036 degree (4 km)

Users

NWS/NCEP/CPC, SDA/FAS, USDA/WAOB