Normalized Differential Vegetation Index critical to Agricultural Monitoring in Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan
New satellite technologies offer enhanced capabilities for early forecasting of food production at national, regional, and global scales. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) program aims to strengthen national capacity in all countries from freely available data.
These visuals show MODIS' satellite-derived crop NDVI Anomaly relative to average (2000-2011). Orange and brown indicate crop with below average conditions. Green indicates crop with above averate conditions.

This image taken from March 30, 2012 shows daily Crop anomaly with the USDA's end of season wheat production values listed. Russia had 56,240 Metric Tons in the 2011-2012 normal year, but had only 37, 717 MT in the 2012-2013 drought year. The regional drought also negatively affected Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The Ukraine had 6563 less MT of wheat and Kazakhstan had 12,891 less MT of wheat.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- Chris Justice (University of Maryland)
- Eric Vermote (NASA/GSFC)
- Inbal Becker Reshef (University of Maryland)
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Producer
- Jefferson Beck (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Datasets used in this visualization
Terra and Aqua Crop NDVI Anomaly (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
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