4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:20:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Gridded drought indices based on remote sensing data for Europe (2000-2015) 2016-07-11 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b 10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b doi: Tanguy, M., Bachmair, S., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J. (2016). Gridded drought indices based on remote sensing data for Europe (2000-2015). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b This dataset comprises three gridded drought indicators based on remote sensing data for Europe. The data has a spatial resolution of 0.05 degree and a temporal resolution of 1 month for the period going from 2000 to 2015. The three drought indicators are: the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on satellite product NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index); - the Temperature Condition Index (TCI) based on remotely sensed LST (Land Surface Temperature) - the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) which is a combination of VCI and TCI, calculated using MODIS products Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b Tanguy, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Tanguy, M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-6834 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bachmair, S. Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg sophie.bachmair@hydrology.uni-freiburg.de author Stahl, K. Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg kerstin.stahl@hydrology.uni-freiburg.de author Hannaford, J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5256-3310 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Meteorological geographical features theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication drought GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Environmental risk Vegetation Condition Index VCI NDVI Normalised Difference Vegetation Index Temperature Condition Index TCI LST Land Surface Temperature VHI Vegetation Health Index MODIS moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer DrIVER monitoring and early warning system otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tanguy, M., Bachmair, S., Stahl, K., Hannaford, J. (2016). Gridded drought indices based on remote sensing data for Europe (2000-2015). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b grid 56000 English utf8 environment 2000-01-01 2015-12-31 -15 45 30 75 netCDF 4 EIDC info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4e0d0e50-2f9c-4647-864d-5c3b30bb5f4b.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Three gridded drought indicators based on remote sensing were calculated for Europe. The data has a spatial resolution of 0.05 degree and a temporal resolution of 1 month for the period going from 2000 to 2015. The three drought indicators are (i) the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) based on satellite product NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) (ii) the Temperature Condition Index based on remotely sensed LST (Land Surface Temperature) and (iii) the Vegetation Health Index (VHI) which is a combination of VCI and TCI. For NDVI, MODIS product MOD13C2 was used, and for LST, MODIS product MOD11C3 was used. VCI, TCI and VHI were derived using methodology described by Kogan (Kogan, F.N., 1995; https://doi.org/10.1016/0273-1177(95)00079-T)