Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-3rd generation (NDVI) using the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling System (GIMMS) 1981-2015

• Main Author: Compton J. Tucker
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2018
• Subjects: Tundra Greenness; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2X63B631

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-3rd generation (NDVI) using the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling System (GIMMS): Vegetation indices are radiometric measures of photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by chlorophyll in the green leaves of vegetation canopies and are therefore good surrogate measures of the physiologically functioning surface greenness level of a region. For 30 years, Compton J. Tucker created the NDVI time series within the framework of the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling System (GIMMS) project. He carefully assembled it from different Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors and accounting for various deleterious effects, such as calibration loss, orbital drift, volcanic eruptions, etc. The latest version of the GIMMS NDVI data set spans the period July 1981 to December 2015 and is termed NDVI3g (third generation GIMMS NDVI from AVHRR sensors).