Mexico Subnational NDVI: 10-Day Vegetation Indicators and Anomalies

The World Food Programme (WFP) provides this dataset of dekadal (10-day) NDVI indicators for Mexico, derived from NASA’s MODIS collection 6.1 satellite imagery. It tracks vegetation health across sub-national administrative units using Aqua and Terra sensor data to calculate current values and historical anomalies.

Use Cases

• Assessing regional drought severity by monitoring the viq (NDVI anomaly percentage) column
• Establishing vegetation baselines for specific administrative units using the vim_lta (long-term average) field
• Weighting the reliability of regional aggregates based on the n_pixels count

Strengths

• Uses NASA MODIS collection 6.1 high-quality satellite data
• Includes Pcode references for administrative units
• Provides historical baselines (vim_lta) for comparative analysis

Limitations

• Aggregated at the administrative level, losing sub-unit spatial detail
• Temporal resolution is fixed at 10-day intervals

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP)

Collection Method

Satellite sensor data aggregation

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Mexico