Earth vegetation map — NDVI data relief wall art

Design story and technique This modular relief translates the NOAA Climate Data Record of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (VIIRS on NOAA-20 through 2023) into a tile-by-tile wall panel: height represents vegetation band, not canopy height or terrain. Each tile encodes the average of the three greenest observations in a year to avoid cloud bias. The coastline is rebuilt from Natural Earth so polar islands and Antarctica appear on the panel. Vegetation bands decide both colour and proj…

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