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The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (Hardcover)
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The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (Hardcover)
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There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its
use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus
explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a
simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to
assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation. The NDVI opens
the possibility of addressing questions on scales inaccessible to
ground-based methods alone; it is mostly freely available with
global coverage over several decades. This novel text provides an
authoritative overview of the principles and possible applications
of the NDVI in ecology, environmental and wildlife management, and
conservation. NDVI data can provide valuable information about
temporal and spatial changes in vegetation distribution,
productivity, and dynamics; allowing monitoring of habitat
degradation and fragmentation, or assessment of the ecological
effects of climatic disasters such as drought or fire. The NDVI has
also provided ecologists with a promising way to couple vegetation
with animal distribution, abundance, movement, survival and
reproductive parameters. Over the last few decades, numerous
studies have highlighted the potential key role of satellite data
and the NDVI in macroecology, plant ecology, animal population
dynamics, environmental monitoring, habitat selection and habitat
use studies, and paleoecology. The chapters are organised around
two sections: the first detailing vegetation indices and the NDVI,
the principles behind the NDVI, its correlation with climate, the
available NDVI datasets, and the possible complications and errors
associated with the use of this satellite-based vegetation index.
The second section discusses the possible applications of the NDVI
in ecology, environmental and wildlife management, and
conservation. This practical handbook is suitable for terrestrial
ecologists and conservation biologists working with remote sensing
tools. It will also be of relevance and use to both graduate
students in the biological and ecological sciences and specialists
in the fields of conservation biology, biodiversity monitoring, and
natural resource management.
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