Monitoring vegetation cover change in east Hunshandake savanna with Landsat TM

Qing He; Daren Lu

doi:10.1117/12.466816

14 July 2003 Monitoring vegetation cover change in east Hunshandake savanna with Landsat TM

Qing He, Daren Lu

Proceedings Volume 4890, Ecosystems Dynamics, Ecosystem-Society Interactions, and Remote Sensing Applications for Semi-Arid and Arid Land; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466816
Event: Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space, 2002, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

Landsat Thermal Mapper data were used to monitoring the vegetation cover change in east part of the Hunshandake sandy land. The NDVI in middle September are 0.47, 0.67, 0.65 and 0.33 in 1987, 1996, 1998 and 2001, respectively, which highly correlated with the rainfall of July and August. There are some regions showed vegetation degradation which could not recover in a short time, most of them located in poor vegetated areas. And the degraded area is increasing from 1996 (3.8%) and to 1998 (6.0%). The vegetation condition shows improvement in 2001, and this may associated with the effort made by Chinese government to improve the environment of Hunshandake sandy land.

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Qing He and Daren Lu "Monitoring vegetation cover change in east Hunshandake savanna with Landsat TM", Proc. SPIE 4890, Ecosystems Dynamics, Ecosystem-Society Interactions, and Remote Sensing Applications for Semi-Arid and Arid Land, (14 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.466816

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