Data · dataset · 2025
Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI)
Listed in NASA Data Portal
The National Drought Mitigation Center produces VegDRI in collaboration with the US Geological Survey's (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), and the High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC), with sponsorship from the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Description
Main researchers working on VegDRI are Dr. Brian Wardlow and Dr.
Tsegaye Tadesse at the NDMC, and Jesslyn Brown with the USGS, and Dr. Yingxin Gu with ASRC Research and Technology Solutions, contractor for the USGS at EROS. VegDRI maps are produced every two weeks and provide regional to sub-county scale information about drought's effects on vegetation.
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In 2006, VegDRI covered seven states in the Northern Great Plains (CO, KS, MT, NE, ND, SD, and WY). It expanded across eight more states in 2007 to cover the rest of the Great Plains (NM, OK, MO, and TX) and parts of the Upper Midwest (IA, IL, MN, and WI). VegDRI expanded to include the western U.S. in 2008 (WA, ID, OR, UT, CA, AZ, NV).
In May 2009 VegDRI began depicting the eastern states as well, covering the entire conterminous 48-state area.
Links
Get the data
- Download this dataset earthexplorer.usgs.gov ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Access to this dataset's extended metadata vegdri.unl.edu/FAQ.aspx ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/vegetation-drought-response-index-vegdri ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=ad98ee75-bd0d-43eb-a035-6469ae530… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
- Inferred from text
- Physical geography and environmental geoscience 68%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3709 | enrichment · data nasa gov | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (68%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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