ARTICLES

Spatio-Temporal Changes of Vegetation in Mongolia Based on MODIS-NDVI During 2001-2010

Expand
  • 1. College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007;
    2. Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, CAS, Beijing 100101

Received date: 2011-02-16

  Revised date: 2011-09-15

  Online published: 2011-10-25

Abstract

The change of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) can reveal the evolvement of environment. Long-term quantitative analysis of vegetal distribution and change can illustrate the reason of environment change, and has become a research focus in recent years. In this paper, we made Mongolia as the study area, analyzed the annual and interannual changes, fluctuation degree and the spatial trend of vegetation distribution by 1 km MODIS-NDVI from 2001 to 2010. The MVC method, average value method, difference value method and linear regression method were used to analyze the annual and interannual changes. The results were: 1) MODIS-NDVI was highly sensitive to growth and change of plants, so it could be effectively applied to evaluate and monitor vegetation ecology; 2) Seasonal change of NDVI was remarkable in Mongolia, NDVI was abundant during summer and autumn, while was poor during winter and spring; 3) In recent ten years, the peak values of vegetation coverage occurred at the year of 2008 in spring, got into valley values in 2010, presented a retrograde tendency on the whole. The summer vegetation coverage and winter vegetation coverage changed slightly, in general the growth of plants was a little better in summer during the past decade, but was gradually reducing in winter. In autumn, the fluctuation of vegetation growth was wider, but still kept a increasing trend in general; 4) As for interannual change, the fluctuating range of NDVI variation was relatively wider from 2006 to 2010, the NDVI degradation was popular in spring and the NDVI coverage was increased during other seasons, and the extent of improvement was slightly higher than the extent of degradation; 5) According to the NDVI trend of Mongolia during 2001-2010, the vegetation area which kept a relatively steady state was 72.40% in spring, 70.30% in summer, 84.01% in autumn and 77.53% in winter, indicating that the NDVI coverage of Mongolia showed a overall stable, locally lightly improved trend in the past ten years; And 6) from the spacial distribution, the stable region was widely distributed on a national scale, the improved region was mainly distributed in the eastern part of the country and the degraded NDVI coverage was mainly distributed in the central region.

Cite this article

WANG Rui, LI Hu . Spatio-Temporal Changes of Vegetation in Mongolia Based on MODIS-NDVI During 2001-2010[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2011 , 13(5) : 665 -671 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2011.00667

References

[1] 孙红雨,王常耀,牛铮,等.中国地表植被覆盖变化及其与气候因子关系——基于NOAA时间系列数据集[J].遥感学报, 1998,2(3): 204-210.

[2] 田庆久,闵祥军.植被指数研究进展[J].地球科学进展,1998,8(4):327-333.

[3] 梅安新,彭望琭.遥感导论[M].北京:高等教育出版社,2001,240-249.

[4] 杜刚.基于 EOS/MODIS 的植被指数监测模型研究及应用,2005,5.

[5] Kaufman Y J, Tanre D. Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index(ARVI) for EOS-MODIS[J]. IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sensing, 1992(30):261-270.

[6] 张仁华,饶农新,廖国男.植被指数的抗大气影响探讨[J].植物学报,1996,38(1):53-62.

[7] Tateishi T, Ishiyama T, Honda Y. Relations-hips between Percent Vegetation Cover and Vegetation Indices[J]. Remote Sensing, 1998,19:3519-3535.

[8] Scanlon T M, Albertson J D, Caylor K K, et al. Determining Land Surface Fractional Cover from NDVI and Rainfall Time Series for a Savanna Ecosystem[J].Remote Sensing of Environment, 2002,82:376-388.

[9] 王正兴,刘闯,HUETE A.植被指数研究进展:从AVHRR-NDVI到MODIS-EVI[J].生态学报,2003,23(5):979-987.

[10] Tuck C J, Fung I Y, Keeling C D, et al. Relationship between Atmospheric CO2 Variations and a Satellite-derived Vegetation Index[J]. Nature, 1986, 319:195-199.

[11] 李震,阎福礼,范湘涛.中国西北地区NDVI变化及其与温度和降水的关系[J].遥感学报,2005,9(3):308-313.

[12] 杜子涛,占玉林,王长耀.基于NDVI序列影像的植被覆盖变化研究[J].遥感技术与应用,2008,23(1):47-50.

[13] 李娜,颜长珍.利用MODIS植被指数评估分水对黑河中游的影响[J].遥感技术与应用,2009,24(6):793-796.

[14] 吴云,曾源,吴炳方,等.基于MODIS数据的三北防护林工程区植被覆盖度提取与分析[J].生态学杂志,2009,28(9):1712-1718.

[15] 张宏斌,杨桂霞,吴文斌,等.呼伦贝尔草原MODIS NDVI的时空变化特征[J].应用生态学报,2009,20(11):2743-2749.

[16] Holven B N. Characteristics of Maximum-value Composite Images for Temporal AVHRR Data[J]. Int. J. Remote Sense, 1986, 7: 1435-1445.

[17] 盛永伟,陈维英,肖乾广,等.我国年植被NDVI变化特征[J].中国科学通报,1995,40(1):68-71.
Outlines

/