Maldives Vegetation Health: 10-Day VIIRS FAPAR Anomaly GeoTIFFs

Delivering 10-day composite geospatial imagery of Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) anomalies for the Maldives. Produced by Copernicus using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensors, the data tracks vegetation health and agricultural drought indicators. The records are current as of March 2026.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural drought by identifying negative deviations in FAPAR anomaly values
• Assessing vegetation productivity using the 0-1 biophysical absorption scale
• Time-series analysis of Maldives environmental health using 10-day VIIRS composites

Strengths

• 10-day high-frequency temporal resolution
• Standardized FAPAR scale (0 to 1) for biophysical comparison
• Derived from professional VIIRS satellite instrumentation

Limitations

• Geographic restriction to the Maldives archipelago
• Requires specialized GIS software to interpret GeoTIFF values
• Lack of tabular metadata for individual records

Provenance

Source

Copernicus

Collection Method

Satellite remote sensing via the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026; follows a 10-day composite cycle.

Geography

Maldives