Dominican Republic: Subnational NDVI and Vegetation Anomalies

Dekadal NDVI indicators for the Dominican Republic aggregated by sub-national administrative units, derived from NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data. Produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), the dataset provides vegetation health metrics including long-term averages and anomalies. Records are updated through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural drought by analyzing the viq (anomaly) column over time
• Assessing vegetation health trends by comparing vim against the vim_lta baseline
• Validating regional climate models using sub-national vegetation indices

Strengths

• Uses NASA MODIS collection 6.1 high-quality satellite imagery
• Includes long-term average (vim_lta) for baseline comparison
• Standardized Pcode references for easy joining with other WFP datasets

Limitations

• Spatial resolution is limited to administrative unit aggregates rather than raw pixel grids
• Dependent on cloud-free satellite observations which may affect pixel counts in the n_pixels column

Provenance

Source

WFP - World Food Programme using NASA MODIS collection 6.1

Collection Method

Remote sensing (satellite) data aggregation

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Dominican Republic