• DocumentCode
    2150902
  • Title

    Monitoring of vegetation coverage of Taiwan Island using SPOT imagery data

  • Author

    Liang, L.S. ; Chen, K.S. ; Chu, Chang Ren

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Space Sci. & Center for Space & Remote Sensing Res., National Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2004
  • Firstpage
    3424
  • Abstract
    In this study, we used SPOT images over years of 2002 and 2003 each year covering two different seasons, to investigate the vegetation coverage over the whole Taiwan island. Attention was paid to evaluate the impacts of seasonal effects. Comparatively, the NDVI over the forested areas was stable, except the landslide sites. From this study, we can see that using the constellation of SPOT satellites to improve the observation frequency is essential to the useful monitoring of vegetation coverage.
  • Keywords
    artificial satellites; vegetation mapping; NDVI; SPOT imagery data; SPOT satellite constellation; Taiwan Island; forest areas; landslide site; vegetation coverage monitoring; Cities and towns; Condition monitoring; Frequency; Geology; Hazards; Reflectivity; Remote monitoring; Satellites; Terrain factors; Vegetation mapping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8742-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370441
  • Filename
    1370441