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Imagery○ Planned2014–present, 0.05°

VIIRS NDVI CDR (NOAA NCEI)

The forward-going successor to MODIS NDVI — keeps the long vegetation record alive from 2014 onward.

What this is

NOAA's VIIRS NDVI Climate Data Record (CDR) is a climate-quality NDVI product at 0.05°, continuing the AVHRR and MODIS long-term vegetation record from 2014 to present. Available via NOAA NCEI and GEE. US Government work, open.

Why we surface it

MODIS is aging out. The VIIRS CDR is the forward-going continuation of the global NDVI series, designed to bridge the records. When MODIS ends, this keeps the chain intact.

What you can do with it

Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.

Internal / individual use
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Redistribute the data
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Republish a derivative
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).
Build into a private product
Public domain. Use it for anything — internal, resale, AI training, closed products. No attribution legally required (crediting the source is still the decent thing to do).

This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.

○ Planned

Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.

Related — same domain

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