Morocco Subnational NDVI: 10-Day Vegetation Indices and Anomalies

Delivering dekadal (10-day) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) indicators for Morocco, aggregated by sub-national administrative units using NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data. Produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), the records track vegetation health through 10-day values, long-term averages, and percentage anomalies. The data is updated as of March 2026 and utilizes WFP-standardized administrative boundaries.

Use Cases

• Detecting agricultural stress by monitoring the viq (NDVI anomaly percentage) column across different provinces
• Analyzing seasonal vegetation cycles using the 10-day vim values to track crop growth stages
• Validating remote sensing models by comparing n_pixels counts against known administrative area sizes

Strengths

• Derived from NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data from both Aqua and Terra platforms
• Includes vim_lta (long-term average) for 10-day historical baseline comparisons
• Uses standardized WFP Pcode references for interoperability with other humanitarian datasets

Limitations

• Spatial resolution is limited to administrative unit aggregates rather than raw pixel-level data
• NDVI values (vim) can be affected by cloud cover interference in the underlying satellite imagery

Provenance

Source

World Food Programme (WFP) using NASA MODIS collection 6.1

Collection Method

Satellite sensor aggregation from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Morocco