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Vegetation Health Index (VHI)

This index can be used to determine and characterize agricultural drought hazard anddrought impact to agriculture and livestock. (source WMO and GWP, 2016)

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Custodian
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http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
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Purpose

Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping drought impact to agriculture and livestock

Credit

N/A

Custodian
  N/A, N/A
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Update scope
Indices
Theme
  • Type: Indices

  • Type of Drought: Agricultural Drought

  • Application: Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping drought impact to agriculture and livestock

  • Extent: Not relevant

Use limitation

AVHRR satellite data.

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
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Spatial resolution

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Spatial resolution

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Metadata language

eng

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End date
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Date (Revision)
Reference system identifier
EPSG / Spatial_reference / 7.9
Distribution format
  • ( Various )

OnLine resource
http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
Hierarchy level
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Description

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Temporal Extent

No information provided.

Vertical extent

Dataset

Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping drought impact to agriculture and livestock

Non quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

N/A

Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass

Conformance result

Date

Completeness omission

Name of measure

Codelist omission

Evaluation Method
Direct internal

Conformance result

Date (Revision)
Pass
Statement

Data requirements to use: AVHRR satellite data.;

Data used: N/A;

Data format: N/A;

Data access: N/A;


Concise description:

One of the first attempts to monitor and identify drought-related agricultural impacts using remotely sensed data. AVHRR data in the visible, infrared and near-infrared channels are all used to identify and classify stress to vegetation due to drought.

File identifier
0686a79a-5a2c-4e7f-a0ff-0ac55d4d32f9 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Indices
Hierarchy level name

Vegetation Health Index (VHI)

Date stamp
2022-02-07T11:04:28
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Custodian
  N/A - N/A ( )
http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/
Dataset URI

http://www.droughtmanagement.info/indices/

 
 

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Keywords

Application: Mapping agricultural drought hazard, Mapping drought impact to agriculture and livestock Extent: Not relevant Type of Drought: Agricultural Drought Type: Indices

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