Rainfall, soil moisture, increasing temperature and changes in vegetation cover are the most important parameters effecting drought. Therefore, analysis of vegetation fraction and soil spectral signature, especially in red and infra red bands, are essential in drought estimation using remote sensing. In this study, Modified Perpendicular Drought Index (MPDI), which uses Vegetation Fraction (VF)...

We examined changes in rangeland health in the semi-arid woodlands of eastern Australia at fixed sites between 1989 and 1999. Over the 11-year period there were significant declines in the quality of the vegetation, and changes in plant species were driven largely by seasonality, and to a lesser extent, amount of rainfall. Three indices of rangelands health (composition, function and stability)...

This study aims to evaluate three classes of methods to discriminate between 13 peatland vegetation types using reflectance data. These vegetation types were empirically defined according to their composition, strata and biodiversity richness. On one hand, it is assumed that the same vegetation type spectral signatures have similarities. Consequently, they can be compared to a reference spectra...

Small mammals can be an important bioindicator of ecosystem health. They serve as both predator and prey in many ecosystems. By means of live trapping and nest monitoring, we studied the ecological relationships between small mammals, avian nest survival, and vegetation composition and structure on six private ranches in the Sandhills of Nebraska during 2004. Our study documented six species (1...

The global demand for fossil energy is triggering oil exploration and production projects in remote areas of the world. During the last few decades hydrocarbon production has caused pollution in the Amazon forest inflicting considerable environmental impact. Until now it is not clear how hydrocarbon pollution affects the health of the tropical forest flora. During a field campaign in polluted a...

The world’s ecosystem and environment are rapidly deteriorating with an increase in the depletion of forest conditions due to fires. In recent past years, wildfire incidents Sikkim have increased severe climatic changes such as turbulent rainfall, untimely summers, extreme droughts winters, a reduction percentage yearly rainfall. Forest fires one numerous kinds disasters that impose disastrous ...

Land cover will change due to population pressure, resource use, and human interest in space. Measuring the land area is important determine how much-converted positive negative. The vegetation on was determined by densely plants were spread out. This study conducted Palabuhanratu, Sukabumi Regency. Aims test compare accurate EVI SAVI are at seeing density. images used from Landsat 8 2018 2022....

One of the primary interests of the Earth Observing System (EOS) program is to study the role of terrestrial vegetation in large-scale global processes with the goal of understanding how the Earth functions as a system. This requires an understanding of the global distribution of vegetation types as well as their biophysical and structural properties and spatial/temporal variations. Vegetation ...

There are high demands for water content estimation in vegetation, e.g. water-stress control for sweet crops, forest disease monitoring and drought monitoring. In this paper, normalized difference-based and ratio-based water stress indices by means of hyperspectral information from NIR to SWIR, spectral ranges of InGaAs sensor, are introduced to facilitate realizing simple measurement system at...