Burundi Subnational NDVI: Dekadal Vegetation Indices and Anomalies

Burundi sub-national NDVI data aggregated every 10 days from NASA MODIS collection 6.1 by the World Food Programme. It provides vegetation health indicators including current values, long-term averages, and anomalies for administrative units identified by Pcodes.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural health by comparing vim against vim_lta
• Identifying drought conditions using the viq anomaly percentage
• Validating spatial coverage of vegetation reports using the n_pixels count

Strengths

• Uses NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data
• Includes long-term averages (vim_lta) for historical context
• Standardized Pcode references for easy joining with other WFP datasets

Limitations

• Aggregated data loses sub-pixel spatial variation
• Dependent on cloud-free satellite observations for accuracy

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) using NASA MODIS data

Collection Method

Satellite sensor aggregation

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Burundi