Pakistan Subnational NDVI: Dekadal Vegetation Indicators and Anomalies

Dekadal (10-day) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) indicators for Pakistan, aggregated by sub-national administrative units using NASA MODIS collection 6.1 satellite data. Produced by the World Food Programme (WFP), the records include current vegetation health, long-term averages, and percentage anomalies. The data is structured for humanitarian and agricultural monitoring using standardized Pcode references.

Use Cases

• Monitoring agricultural drought by tracking the viq (NDVI anomaly) column across different dekads
• Establishing vegetation baselines for specific regions using the vim_lta (long-term average) field
• Correlating vegetation health with regional food security by joining Pcode references with socio-economic data

Strengths

• Derived from NASA MODIS collection 6.1 high-quality satellite imagery
• Includes Pcode references for direct integration with WFP humanitarian datasets
• Provides n_pixels column to assess the statistical reliability of each aggregate

Limitations

• Aggregated at the administrative level, which obscures local variations within districts
• NDVI values can be affected by cloud cover or atmospheric interference inherent in MODIS sensors

Provenance

Source

NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) collection 6.1

Collection Method

Satellite sensor data aggregated by WFP administrative boundaries

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Pakistan