Temporal and spatial analysis of vegetation coverage changes in Ordos area based on time series GIMMS-NDVI data

Ruimei Han; Youfeng Zou; Chao Ma; Pei Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2068689

8 November 2014 Temporal and spatial analysis of vegetation coverage changes in Ordos area based on time series GIMMS-NDVI data

Ruimei Han, Youfeng Zou, Chao Ma, Pei Liu

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Proceedings Volume 9260, Land Surface Remote Sensing II; 92602U (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068689
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

Ordos area is the desert-wind erosion desertification steppe transition zone and the complex ecological zone. As the research area, Ordos City has the similar natural geographic environment to ShenDong coalfield. To research its ecological patterns and natural evolution law, it has instructive to reveal temporal and spatial changes of ecological environment with artificial disturbance in western mining. In this paper, a time series of AVHRR-NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) data was used to monitor the change of vegetation temporal and spatial dynamics from 1981 to 2006 in Ordos City and ShenDong coalfield, where were as the research area. The MVC (Maximum Value Composites) method, average operation, linear regression, and gradation for NDVI change trend were used to obtained some results, as follows: ¬vegetation coverage had obvious characteristics with periodic change in research area for 26 years, and vegetation growth peak appeared on August, while the lowest appeared on January. The extreme values in Ordos City were 0.2351 and 0.1176, while they were 0.2657 and 0.1272 in ShenDong coalfield. The NDVI value fluctuation was a modest rise trend overall in research area. The extreme values were 0.3071 and 0.1861 in Ordos City, while they were 0.3454 and 0.1904 in ShenDong coalfield. In spatial distribution, slight improvement area and slight degradation area were accounting for 42.49% and 8.37% in Ordos City, while slight improvement area moderate improvement area were accounting for 70.59% and 29.41% in ShenDong coalfield. Above of results indicated there was less vegetation coverage in research area, which reflected the characteristics of fragile natural geographical environment. In addition, vegetation coverage was with a modest rise on the whole, which reflected the natural environment change.

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Ruimei Han, Youfeng Zou, Chao Ma, and Pei Liu "Temporal and spatial analysis of vegetation coverage changes in Ordos area based on time series GIMMS-NDVI data", Proc. SPIE 9260, Land Surface Remote Sensing II, 92602U (8 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068689

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