Vegetation indices - spectrometer - mosaic (DP3.30026.001)

The Vegetation Indices data product is a collection of five spectral indices: NDVI, EVI, ARVI, PRI and SAVI. These indices use regions of reflectance spectra known to be indicators of vegetation health, vegetation health in high LAI areas, vegetation health in lush and/or humid regions, and vegetation health in mixed soil and vegetation landcover areas. The indices are derived from NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) Imaging Spectrometer (NIS) data collected in North-South oriented flight lines to reduce BRDF effects. These data are processed to orthorectified directional surface reflectance and then processed to the indices. L3 Vegetation Indices are distributed in 1 km square tiles with 1 m pixels whose values are taken from the most-nadir pixel from the original flight line collections.

Latency:
AOP data will be available 60 days after the final collection day at a site.