Annual Normalized Difference Vegetation

Annual Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (2000-2016)

NOTE: Here we provide this data set for 3 states: Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. All India data are available upon request from the corresponding author of the study mentioned below.

Data Description:

This data set provides the the annual sum of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for each calendar year (January 1 to December 31) during 2000–2016, aggregated from the MODIS NDVI 16-day composites at a spatial scale of 1 km.

Recommended Citation(s):

Mondal, P., McDermid, S., Qadir, A. 2020. A reporting framework for Sustainable Development Goal 15: Multi-scale monitoring of forest degradation using MODIS, Landsat and Sentinel data. Remote Sensing of Environment 237, 111592, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111592.