Subject: Product Outage/Anomaly: Operational Implementation of This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020000060403070201070607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *Operational Implementation of Vegetation Health Product (VHP) System *Date/Time**Issued: *November 29, 2012 2015 UTC * * *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*Operational capability for global vegetation health monitoring from polar satellites/sensors * Date/Time of Initial Impact:*November 29, 2012 2200 UTC***** * *Date/Time of Expected End:*****Unknown * Length of Event:*TBD* * *Details/Specifics of Change:*The VHP products will update current Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) from 16km to 4km for NESDIS/OSPO; and produce Temperature Condition Index (TCI) and Vegetation Health Index (VHI) for NWS/CPC, USDA and other users. The VHP products will provide a crucial tool for NWS/CPC to predict drought, El Nino Southern Oscillation impacts; for NESDIS/OSPO to improve fire products and biomass burning emission products; for USDA to predict crop and pasture production. On November 29, 2012, 22:00:00 UTC, the VHP will be implemented into the ESPC operation and supported under 8x5. The weekly products are available in both GeoTiff and NetCDF formats through the ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS). The imagery products are available on the Internet through: **Contact Information for Further Information:**ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880 * Web site(s): *http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vhp/index.html This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov. You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880. Please note: it made take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --------------020000060403070201070607 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic: Operational Implementation of Vegetation Health Product (VHP) System

Date/Time Issued:  November 29, 2012 2015 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  Operational capability for global vegetation health monitoring from polar satellites/sensors

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  November 29,  2012  2200 UTC 

Date/Time of Expected End:  Unknown

Length of Event:  TBD
Details/Specifics of Change: The VHP products will update current Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) from 16km to 4km for NESDIS/OSPO; and produce Temperature Condition Index (TCI) and Vegetation Health Index (VHI) for NWS/CPC, USDA and other users. The VHP products will provide a crucial tool for NWS/CPC to predict drought, El Nino Southern Oscillation impacts; for NESDIS/OSPO to improve fire products and biomass burning emission products; for USDA to predict crop and pasture production. On November 29, 2012, 22:00:00 UTC, the VHP will be implemented into the ESPC operation and supported under 8x5. The weekly products are available in both GeoTiff and NetCDF formats through the ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS). The imagery products are available on the Internet through:

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880

Web site(s):  http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vhp/index.html

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