A daily gap-free normalized difference vegetation index dataset from 1981 to 2023 in China

The daily gap-free NDVI product covers a spatial extent of 18.16°N to 53.56°N and 73.44°E to 135.09°E with a spatial resolution of 0.05°. The NDVI product from June 24, 1981 to May 10, 2023 is available at figshare repository. The NDVI data for each year is individually stored as a standard Network Common Data Form, version 4 (NetCDF-4, NC4) format and a total of 43 NC4 files are provided. The file names follow the structure of “Daily_Gap-filled_NDVI_YYYY.nc4”, where “YYYY” represents the year. Additional information, such as the scale factor, is stored in the files.