Essays about: "NDVI"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 114 essays containing the word NDVI.

  1. 21. Change of heating fuel consumption patterns produced by the economic crisis in Greece

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Panagiotis Patrinos; [2021]
    Keywords : geography; GIS; atmospheric pollution; Greece; household heating systems; heating fuel; economic Crisis; air Quality; satellite data; virtual stations; regression analysis; air pollutants mapping; anthropogenic factors; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The economic crisis in Greece resulted in a change in residential heating fuels utilized, which in turn resulted in a change of air quality over Greater Athens Area. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of economic crisis in air quality over Attica by examining the change in air pollutants’ concentrations before, during, and after the onset of the economic crisis in Greece and to associate this change with the change in fuels used for residential heating. READ MORE

  3. 22. Vegetation-climate interactions in California – an in-depth analysis on the influence of climatic events across different Californian biomes

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Felipe Fileni; [2021]
    Keywords : droughts; climate vegetation interactions; SPEI; NDVI; California;

    Abstract : It is widely accepted that climate variability is a key driver of vegetation productivity. Yet, there are discrepancies on the ideal timescales of climatic events and vegetation response. The work herein attempts to clarify how those variables interact in the region of California. READ MORE

  4. 23. Multi-scale topography assessment for site-specific drought management in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Soil and Environment

    Author : Karl Knaebel; [2021]
    Keywords : drought; topography; precision agriculture; Sentinel-2; DSS;

    Abstract : Globally, as well as in Sweden, the occurrence of droughts is expected to increase due to global warming. The drought summer of 2018 revealed the vulnerability of Sweden’s agriculture – with cereal yield losses of up to 50 %. Subsequently, the development of more resilience crop production systems to mitigate future droughts is required. READ MORE

  5. 24. Effects of armed conflict on forest cover and vegetation seasonality in Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : David Ebert; [2021]
    Keywords : conflict; forest cover; vegetation seasonality; NDVI; remote sensing; Cambodia; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Armed conflicts have definitive wide-ranging and diverse impacts on the environment. This thesis examines associations between conflict and land cover change in Cambodia, focusing on the last decade (1989 - 1998) of a thirty-year long Civil War. READ MORE

  6. 25. Remote sensing analysis of land cover/use conditions of community-based wildlife conservation areas in Tanzania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Kharid Mwakoba; [2021]
    Keywords : geography; Geographical Information Systems; GIS; remote sensing; wildlife management area; Tanzania; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Community based approaches to conservation in the developing world have generally been criticized for not meeting their goals of sustainable conservation and local development. Inadequate local participation and inequitable benefits sharing among others are some of the major concerns. READ MORE