An Approach to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Vegetation in the Growing Season in Western China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data Sources and Processing
2.3. Sen Trend Analysis and Mann-Kendall Test
2.4. Spatial Autocorrelation
2.5. Standard Deviation Ellipse
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Temporal Variation Characteristics of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in Growing Season of West China
3.2. An Analysis of the Spatial Variation Trend of NDVI in Growing Season in West China
3.3. Spatial Correlation Analysis of Vegetation Coverage in Growing Season in West China
3.4. Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics of Annual Vegetation Coverage Based on Standard Deviation Ellipse (SDE)
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variation Trend | Degree | The Number of Pixels | The Percentage (%) |
---|---|---|---|
β < 0, |Z| < 1.96 | Significant degradation | 15463744 | 4.63 |
β < 0, |Z| < 1.96 | stability region | 220144128 | 65.91 |
β > 0, |Z| < 1.96 | A slight improvement | 97846089 | 29.30 |
β > 0, |Z| < 1.96 | significant improvement | 530570 | 0.16 |
Year | Moran’s I | The Mean Vegetation Coverage (FVC) | Variation Coefficients | p-Values |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | 0.48828 | 0.38974 | 0.02674 | 0.00040 |
2005 | 0.47973 | 0.40769 | 0.02675 | 0.00049 |
2010 | 0.47120 | 0.39809 | 0.02661 | 0.00057 |
2015 | 0.47657 | 0.39807 | 0.02665 | 0.00051 |
2018 | 0.46430 | 0.40331 | 0.02618 | 0.00060 |
Year | Center Longitude/ Degree (E) | Center Dimension/ Degree (N) | The Direction of Spatial Pattern | Direction Angle | X-axis Length (km) | y-axis Length (km) | The Shape of Index |
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2000 | 99.76 | 35.71 | NE-SW | 81.98 | 10.51 | 16.82 | 0.63 |
2005 | 99.11 | 35.98 | NE-SW | 82.86 | 10.34 | 16.98 | 0.61 |
2010 | 100.50 | 35.64 | NE-SW | 81.059 | 10.76 | 16.76 | 0.64 |
2015 | 98.81 | 35.96 | NE-SW | 83.14 | 10.36 | 17.38 | 0.60 |
2018 | 99.78 | 35.97 | NE-SW | 84.88 | 10.34 | 16.40 | 0.63 |
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Yuan, J.; Bian, Z.; Yan, Q.; Gu, Z.; Yu, H. An Approach to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Vegetation in the Growing Season in Western China. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 945. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060945
Yuan J, Bian Z, Yan Q, Gu Z, Yu H. An Approach to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Vegetation in the Growing Season in Western China. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(6):945. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060945
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan, Junfang, Zhengfu Bian, Qingwu Yan, Zhiyun Gu, and Haochen Yu. 2020. "An Approach to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Vegetation in the Growing Season in Western China" Remote Sensing 12, no. 6: 945. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060945