Gila River Vegetation

This data snippet contains:

1. Tribal subdivision boundaries
2. MODIS NDVI (vegetation health) for the Gila River Indian Community region

Data used in the ESIIL Stars program vegetation coding challenge and published online on the ESIIL Environmental Data Science Learning Portal.

Bibliography:

• U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (Publisher). (2020). TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, Nation, U.S., American Indian Tribal Subdivisions [Shapefile]. catalog.data.gov. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2020-nation-u-s-american-indian-tribal-subdivisions
• Didan, K. (2021). MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V061 [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. Accessed 2025-04-30 from https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD13Q1.061
• AppEEARS Team. (2025). Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS). Ver. 3.80.1. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), USGS/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. Accessed April, 30, 2025. https://appeears.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/