VIIRS/JPSS2 NDVI 16-Day 1km (VJ213A2 V002), Native

16-day Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from the VIIRS sensor on NOAA-21 (JPSS-2), at 1 km resolution on the global sinusoidal grid. Each composite selects the best available observation per pixel over the 16-day period. The product continues the MODIS vegetation index record. Only the NDVI layer of the NASA LP DAAC VJ213A2 version 2 product is stored here, without further processing.

See also the NASA Earthdata dataset page and the VNP13 User Guide and ATBD for methodology and caveats.

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Vermote, E. (2026). VIIRS/JPSS2 Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V002 [Dataset]. NASA LP DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VJ213A2.002.

Storage for this dataset is generously provided by Source Cooperative, a Radiant Earth project.

Data at a glance

Providers

• NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC — producer, licensor
• WFP Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Service (VAM) — processor
• Source Cooperative — host

Data organization

All tiles of a composite share one folder; the tile is part of the filename, e.g. VJ213A2.A2023041.h20v08.002.2025281184240_VIM.tif (composite start A<year><day-of-year>, tile h20v08).

Browse or download with the AWS CLI:

Usage

NDVI is stored as scaled integers: multiply by 0.0001 and mask -15000 to get values in [-1, 1]. Tiles are mosaicked on load, in the native sinusoidal CRS unless you pass crs= and resolution=.

License

CC0-1.0. NASA data are free of use restrictions; LP DAAC asks that the dataset be cited (see the citation above) in publications using it.

About

This dataset was prepared and published through the WFP Humanitarian Data Cube (HDC). It is also served live from the HDC STAC API: vj213a2_native.

For questions, corrections, or data requests, contact hq.geospatial@wfp.org.