Title :
Monitoring of Desertification in Inner Mongolia Based on MODIS Data
Author :
Zhang, Cui ; Niu, Shengjie ; Xu, Dan
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Atmos. Phys., Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Desertification is nowadays a major problem facing mankind. The central region of Inner Mongolia is a serious and strong development area of desertification. In this paper, the NDVI and vegetation overlay derived from MODIS images are used in monitoring the grassland desertification. And the thematic maps of desertification distribution are extracted and compared by the year of 2004 and 2005. The results showed that, some severe desertification developed into a serious state, reflecting a degrading, while the eastern part of Xilin Gol League transferred from severe desertification into moderate, and both moderate and mild desertification have increased, providing an improvement of the desertification.
Keywords :
geomorphology; radiometry; remote sensing; vegetation; AD 2004; AD 2005; Inner Mongolia region; MODIS data; NDVI; Xilin Gol League; desertification distribution; grassland desertification; remote sensing; vegetation; Data mining; Degradation; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil; Spatial resolution; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Computing (ICIC), 2010 Third International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuxi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7081-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7082-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIC.2010.267
