vegetation – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:23:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg vegetation – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Herbal Earth https://www.maproomblog.com/2013/06/herbal-earth/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:13:23 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2013/06/herbal-earth/ More]]> Herbal Earth
Today NASA released a set of vegetation maps based on data from the Suomi NPP satellite. Flickr photoset, YouTube video. The maps depict a year’s worth of changes in vegetation. “High values of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI, represent dense green functioning vegetation and low NDVI values represent sparse green vegetation or vegetation under stress from limiting conditions, such as drought.” Image credit: NASA/NOAA.

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