Subject: Administrative: NDE VIIRS Vegetation Health Products (VHP) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_rICbWhDEcpB5F6v0ZrrXwQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT *Topic:*NDE VIIRS Vegetation Health Products (VHP) Updates *Date/Time Issued: *January 15, 2016 1425Z * Product(s) or Data Impacted: *Operational capability for global vegetation health monitoring from polar satellites/sensors. *Date/Time of Initial Impact:* January 15, 2016 1500Z *Details/Specifics of Change:* CLASS ORR for NDE VIIRS VHP on November 3, 2015; NDE VIIRS VHP ORR on November 20, 2015; CLASS successfully pulled VHP data on December 17, 2015; OSPO VHP Monitoring Web page ready on January 14, 2016 The VHP system will update current 16 km AVHRR Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) to 4km VIIRS VCI for NESDIS/OSPO; and produce 4km VIIRS 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 January 15, 2016, 15:00:00 UTC, the VIIRS VHP will be in full ESPC operation and supported under 24X7. The weekly products are available in both of GeoTiff and NetCDF formats through OSPO anonymous ftp server, and they will be available in the ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS) in NDE 2.0. The imagery products are available on the Internet as in following links. ftp://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/VHP/VVHP/ http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vvhp/ Web Site(s) for applicable information: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vvhp/ *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 and/or DDS_Administrator@noaa.gov .** This message was sent from 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.govor (301) 817-3880 . Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. --Boundary_(ID_rICbWhDEcpB5F6v0ZrrXwQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT

Topic: NDE VIIRS Vegetation Health Products (VHP) Updates

Date/Time Issued: January 15, 2016 1425Z

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

Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 15, 2016 1500Z

Details/Specifics of Change:

CLASS ORR for NDE VIIRS VHP on November 3, 2015;

NDE VIIRS VHP ORR on November 20, 2015;

CLASS successfully pulled VHP data on December 17, 2015;

OSPO VHP Monitoring Web page ready on January 14, 2016

The VHP system will update current 16 km AVHRR Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) to 4km VIIRS VCI for NESDIS/OSPO; and produce 4km VIIRS 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 January 15, 2016, 15:00:00 UTC, the VIIRS VHP will be in full ESPC operation and supported under 24X7.

The weekly products are available in both of GeoTiff and NetCDF formats through OSPO anonymous ftp server, and they will be available in the ESPC Data Distribution Server (DDS) in NDE 2.0. The imagery products are available on the Internet as in following links.

ftp://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/VHP/VVHP/
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vvhp/

Web Site(s) for applicable information:
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/vvhp/

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

This message was sent from 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 may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request.

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