16-Day Vegetation Anomaly
The map is based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), a measure of how plant leaves absorb visible light and reflect infrared light. Drought-stressed vegetation reflects more visible light and less infrared than healthy vegetation. The vegetation index helps us see how much or how little live plant material is out there.
16-day Vegetation Anomaly
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Visualizer
- Marit Jentoft-Nilsen (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Datasets used
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[Terra: MODIS]
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NDVI [Terra: MODIS]
ID: 501This dataset can be found at: http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/modis/ndvi/
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Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, October 24, 2013.
This page was last updated on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM EST.