VEGETATION CHANGES ANALYSIS USING NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE MEVASI FOREST

Abstract

The iipresent iistudy iimonitors iithe iiinterrelationship iiof iiNormalized iidifference iivegetation iiindex ii(NDVI) iiwith iiland iisurface iitemperature ii(LST) iiin iiMevasi iiforest iiin iiNandurbar iidistrict, iiMaharashtra, iiIndia, iiusing iiLandsat iisatellite iisensor iifor iithe iiseason iiof ii2013 iiand ii2021. iiClimate iichange iiis iicaused iiby iiglobal iiwarming iidue iito iihuman iiactivities iithat iicontribute iito iigreenhouse iigas ii(GHG) iiemissions. iiLand-based iihuman iiactivities iiresult iiin iichanges iiin iidense iivegetation, iiespecially iiforest iistands iito iiland iicover iiwith iilow iivegetation iidensity.iiiRemotely iisensed iimultispectral iidata iifrom iiLandsat-8 iiis iihighly iiuseful iiin iivegetation iichange iianalysis iibased iion iiremote iisensing iiindices iiand iitemperature iiparameters. iiNDVI ii(Normalized iiDifference iiVegetation iiIndex)-LST ii(Land iiSurface iiTemperature) iirelation iiis iiessential iito iiunderstanding iithe iiclimatological iieffects iion iivegetation iion iiregional iiscales. iiThreshold-based iiclassification iihas iibeen iiused iito iirealize iivegetation iichange iiin iimulti-temporal iistudies.Similarly, iiin iithis iistudy iiNDVI iibased iiclassification iihas iibeen iiapplied iito iiunderstand iithe iichange iiin iithe iiarea iicovered iiby iivegetation iiand iiwaterbodies. iiOverall, iia iiweak iinegative iicorrelation ii ii(r ii= ii0.647) iiwas iifound iibetween iiNDVI-LST iiand iiobserved iithat iiour iiresults iibased iion iicorrelation iianalysis iireaffirmed iiprevious iifindings iifor iiLST-NDVI iirelations iiin iisemiarid iiregions.