Dominican Republic FAPAR Vegetation Anomalies: 10-Day VIIRS Composites

Copernicus provides 10-day time composite geospatial data of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) anomalies for the Dominican Republic. Derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), these records measure vegetation health and greenness to monitor agricultural drought impacts. The data is current through March 2026 and is delivered in GeoTIFF format.

Use Cases

• Detecting agricultural drought by analyzing FAPAR anomaly deviations from the 0-1 baseline
• Monitoring vegetation productivity trends using 10-day VIIRS composite intervals
• Assessing environmental health impacts in the Dominican Republic through greenness indicators

Strengths

• Derived from high-resolution VIIRS sensor data
• Standardized 10-day temporal resolution for consistent monitoring
• Uses the biophysical FAPAR metric on a normalized 0-1 scale

Limitations

• Geographic scope is strictly limited to the Dominican Republic
• Raster format requires specialized GIS software for extraction and analysis
• Lack of tabular metadata for specific pixel-level historical trends

Provenance

Source

Copernicus

Collection Method

Satellite sensor (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite - VIIRS)

Freshness

Updated as recently as March 2026 with a regular 10-day composite frequency.

Geography

Dominican Republic