Western US Drought

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Drought over Western United States (Stills)

The product that generated these images is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which measures the health of plant life based on their levels of photosynthesis. The NDVI was developed by Compton Tucker, a senior scientist at NASA/Goddard.

NDVI measurements for North and South Dakota during May, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2493

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Joycelyn Thomson

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/07/15

  • Scientist

    Robert Mahoney (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Drought, NDVI

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Climatology, Hydrology, Soil science

  • Data Date

    May, 2002

  • Animation Type

    Stills

  • Airchecks

    ABC News