Type of change: Termination of NOAA-15 Global Vegetation Index (GVI) Products on September 30, 2012
The NOAA-15 AVHRR NDVI products are getting degraded significantly as the instrument ECT is drifting away from 7:45AM to 4:45AM. The NDVI algorithms could not work optimally with the drift. As a result, the NOAA-15 AVHRR vegetation products are unable to meet the operational requirements for quality. A decision has been made by NESDIS to terminate the NOAA-15 GVI products generation and dissemination on September 30, 2012.
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