Djibouti Subnational NDVI: 10-Day Vegetation Indicators and Anomalies

Dekadal (10-day) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) indicators for Djibouti's sub-national administrative units, derived from NASA MODIS satellite imagery. Produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), the data tracks vegetation health through current values, long-term averages, and percentage anomalies. The records are aggregated based on WFP administrative boundaries and include Pcode references for geographic alignment.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural drought by comparing current vim against the vim_lta baseline
• Analyzing vegetation health trends across Djibouti administrative units using the viq anomaly indicator
• Assessing data reliability for specific regions using the n_pixels count

Strengths

• Uses NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 high-resolution satellite data
• Includes Pcode references for standardized joining with other humanitarian datasets
• Provides n_pixels column to indicate the statistical weight of each aggregate

Limitations

• Aggregated at the sub-national level, which obscures fine-grained pixel-level spatial variance
• NDVI readings are sensitive to cloud cover and atmospheric interference

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) using NASA MODIS Collection 6.1

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing aggregated by administrative boundaries

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Djibouti