Ecuador Subnational NDVI: Dekadal Vegetation Indicators and Anomalies

Dekadal NDVI indicators for Ecuador aggregated by sub-national administrative units using NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data. Produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), this dataset tracks vegetation health through 10-day measurements, long-term averages, and percentage anomalies. The data is structured for humanitarian and agricultural monitoring at the regional level.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural health by comparing current vim against the long-term average vim_lta
• Identifying drought or vegetation stress using the viq anomaly percentage
• Validating regional vegetation trends by filtering for high n_pixels counts

Strengths

• Uses NASA MODIS collection 6.1 high-resolution satellite data
• Includes vim_lta for historical baseline comparison
• Standardized Pcode references for integration with other WFP datasets

Limitations

• Aggregated at the sub-national level, losing granular pixel-level spatial variance
• Dependent on cloud-free satellite observations which may affect n_pixels in tropical regions

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) using NASA MODIS collection 6.1

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing (MODIS Aqua and Terra) aggregated to administrative boundaries

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026 per source metadata.

Geography

Ecuador