ADO Factsheet: Vegetation Health Index (VHI) and Vegetation Condition Index (VCI)

FAIR Overall Score

Abstract

This factsheet provides a technical description of the Vegetation Health Index (VHI, Kogan, 1995), which is implemented in the Alpine Drought Observatory (ADO). VHI can be used for detecting agricultural drought and assessing its severity.

Keywords

VHI, VCI, Vegetation Health Index, Vegetation Condition Index, ADO platform, ADO, ADO project, cct, Slovenia, Italy, Europe, Austria, Hydrography, natural dynamics, natural areas, landscape, ecosystems, climate, disasters, accidents, risk, water

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.48784/d125c506-8144-4eda-bfc1-80b7bac6727c

Contact for metadata

Eurac Research - Institute for Earth Observation
peterjames.zellner@eurac.edu

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FAIR Overall Score: 96%

Principle	Score	Earned	Level
Findable	100%	7 of 7	advanced
Accessible	100%	7 of 7	advanced
Interoperable	100%	6 of 6	advanced
Reusable	83%	5 of 6	moderate

Assessed 2026-07-22 (metrics 0.8)

Evaluated by F-UJI web service: Anusuriya Devaraju, & Robert Huber. (2020). F-UJI - An Automated FAIR Data Assessment Tool. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6361400

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