BetaBetaDataset
To show severe drought and its effect on plant growth in East Africa.
Drought has plunged East Africa into the worst food security crisis Africa has faced in 20 years. More than 11.5 million people are currently in need of food aid in Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. The number is projected to rise, and this image illustrates why.
Dataset contains vegetation anomaly percentage, in cases where there were more leafy photosynthesizing plants than average, the image is green and brown shows that plants were sparser or growing less than average. Most of East Africa region are brown indicating poor plant growth during the growing season.
Data is obtained using observations from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on the NOAA-18 POES satellite.