US NDVI (May 2002)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NDVI for the United States as of May, 2002

New satellite-derived images of vegetation confirm extremely dry conditions exist that are ripe for fires in the western United States, according to a data collaboration between NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.

Western US NDVI

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2489

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0026

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:00:59:10

  • Animator

    Joycelyn Thomson

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/07/02

  • Scientist

    Robert Mahoney (NASA/GSFC)

  • Keywords

    Drought, NDVI

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Climatology, Hydrology, Soil science

  • Data Date

    May, 2002

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020702westdrought.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular