Gridded drought indices based on remote sensing data for Europe (2000-2015)

This dataset comprises three gridded drought indicators based on remote sensing data for Europe. The data has a spatial resolution of 0.05 degree and a temporal resolution of 1 month for the period going from 2000 to 2015. The three drought indicators are: the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on satellite product NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index); - the Temperature Condition Index (TCI) based on remotely sensed LST (Land Surface Temperature) - the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) which is a combination of VCI and TCI, calculated using MODIS products Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b

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Identification

File identifier: 4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b XML

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Online resource

Resource identifier

code: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Spatial representation type: grid Grid

Encoding

Format: netCDF

Version: 4

Projection

code: WGS 84

Classification of data and services

Topic category

Environment

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Meteorological geographical features

Geographic coverage

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin: 2000-01-01

End: 2015-12-31

Temporal extent

Date (Publication): 2016-07-11

Quality and validity

Lineage: Three gridded drought indicators based on remote sensing were calculated for Europe. The data has a spatial resolution of 0.05 degree and a temporal resolution of 1 month for the period going from 2000 to 2015. The three drought indicators are (i) the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on satellite product NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) (ii) the Temperature Condition Index based on remotely sensed LST (Land Surface Temperature) and (iii) the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) which is a combination of VCI and TCI. For NDVI, MODIS product MOD13C2 was used, and for LST, MODIS product MOD11C3 was used. VCI, TCI and VHI were derived using methodology described by Kogan (Kogan, F.N., 1995; https://doi.org/10.1016/0273-1177(95 )00079-T)

Distance: 56000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Conformity

Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints: no limitations

Access constraints: This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Access constraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Access constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Bachmair, S., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J. (2016). Gridded drought indices based on remote sensing data for Europe (2000-2015). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b