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Manish Sharma1, Pargin Bangotra1, Alok Sagar Gautam2
1Atmospheric Research Laboratory, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.
Abstract:
This study examines the trends in MODIS/TERRA derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and its correlation with Land Surface Temperature (LST), Soil Moisture (SM), and precipitation over Gautam Buddh Nagar (India), during the period 2005-2018. The region have a sub-humid and quite moderate climate, scattered into cultivable land, forest and fast growing urbanization zone, making it suitable for monitoring vegetation trends and its accompanying factors. The NDVI-derived vegetation growth patterns over the study region of District Gautam Buddh Nagar, illustrate vigorous seasonal cycles, and interannual variations. The correlation between NDVI, and LST (- 0.45) was observed to be higher than the correlation of NDVI with SM (r = 0.43), and precipitation (r = 0.341), suggesting NDVI as more sensitive to LST as compare to SM, and precipitation, while SM shows the worthy positive correlation (r = 0.63) with the precipitation. On a seasonal basis, NDVI shows high values during winter (0.45 ± 0.02) followed by monsoon (0.44 ± 0.04), post-monsoon (0.41 ± 0.02), and pre-monsoon (0.37 ± 0.04). This study also aims to determine the phase wise status of NDVI and associated parameters.
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