Time series dataset of precipitation, temperature, and vegetation index for Ecuador's parishes, 2005–2024

This dataset provides monthly, parish-level summaries of three key environmental variables for continental Ecuador from January 2005 to December 2024: precipitation (mm), land surface temperature (°C), and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). For each of the 1,034 parishes defined by the 2022 INEC administrative boundaries, four statistical measures are provided: minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation.

Data were derived from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) satellite products (GPM IMERG for precipitation, MODIS 11C3 for temperature, and MODIS 13C2 for NDVI). All products were processed using TerrSet, reprojected to UTM with 100×100 m pixels, and aggregated at the parish level using zonal statistics.

Files are provided in Excel format (.xlsx), one file per variable, with four sheets corresponding to each summary statistic. Column headers include official INEC parish codes, parish names, year, month, and value.

This dataset is suitable for environmental monitoring, climate variability analysis, spatial epidemiology, and public health research, particularly for studying the environmental determinants of vector-borne and climate-sensitive diseases.