Pasture maps

Annual satellite views of pasture condition in the project’s target soums, from Sentinel-2 imagery.

For each soum, we compare true-colour satellite images and NDVI vegetation-index maps captured at the peak of the growing season (roughly 20 July – 10 August), year by year from 2021 to 2026 — making multi-year changes in pasture condition visible at a glance. On the NDVI maps, dark green indicates dense, healthy vegetation, while pale yellow indicates sparse vegetation. Click any image to enlarge it.

Data source: Sentinel-2 satellites of the European Union’s Copernicus programme (Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem). Owing to cloud cover, some years’ images were taken in late July or early August; the acquisition date of each image is shown in brackets.