The normalized difference vegetation index / Nathalie Pettorelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettorelli, Nathalie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vegetation and climate.

Plant ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation. The NDVI opens the possibility of addressing questions on scales inaccessible to ground-based methods alone; it is mostly freely available with global coverage overseveral decades. This novel text provides an authoritative overview of the principles and possible applications of t

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Proxy-based approaches in ecology and the importance of remote sensing; 1.1 A century of unprecedented global changes; 1.2 Scope for remote sensing; 1.3 Getting started: the remote sensing user toolkit; 1.4 Conclusions; 1.5 Organization of the book; 2 Vegetation indices; 2.1 Vegetation indices: definition and value in ecological studies; 2.2 A brief history of vegetation indices; 2.3 Characteristics of a successful vegetation index; 2.4 Conclusions; 3 NDVI from A to Z; 3.1 How does it work?

3.2 Available datasets3.3 Known caveats and limitations; 3.4 Complementing NDVI with other datasets; 3.5 Conclusions; 4 Climate and the NDVI: a complex story; 4.1 Climatic variability and the NDVI: global trends; 4.2 Climatic variability and the NDVI: from global to regional and national trends; 4.3 Conclusions; 5 NDVI and environmental monitoring; 5.1 Mapping ecosystem distribution; 5.2 Predicting disturbances and assessing their impacts on ecosystems; 5.3 Monitoring changes in the functional attributes of ecosystems; 5.4 Monitoring habitat loss and degradation; 5.5 Conclusions

6 NDVI and plant ecology6.1 NDVI and plant richness; 6.2 NDVI and plant distribution; 6.3 NDVI as a predictor of plant attributes; 6.4 NDVI and plant physiological status; 6.5 Informing agriculture; 6.6 Conclusions; 7 NDVI and wildlife management; 7.1 NDVI, habitat use, and animal movement; 7.2 NDVI and life histories; 7.3 NDVI and animal abundance; 7.4 NDVI and species richness; 7.5 Conclusions; 8 NDVI for informing conservation biology; 8.1 Supporting the management and expansion of protected areas; 8.2 NDVI for support of habitat assessments for reintroductions; 8.3 Identifying corridors

8.4 Predicting climate change effects on wildlife8.5 NDVI and invasive species; 8.6 Conclusions; 9 NDVI falls down: exploring situations where it does not work; 9.1 Diet matters; 9.2 Scale matters; 9.3 Location matters; 9.4 Confounding effects; 9.5 Conclusions; 10 Ecosystem services, NDVI, and national reporting: matches and mismatches; 10.1 International conventions and platforms on the preservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; 10.2 NDVI and the legal sphere; 10.3 Conclusions; 11 Future directions and challenges; 11.1 Availability of NDVI data for conservation work

11.2 NDVI datasets in the future11.3 NDVI in the freshwater and marine environments; 11.4 Alternatives to the NDVI; 11.5 Constraints on the use of remote sensing information; 11.6 General conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-151272-9

0-19-181014-2

0-19-151271-0

OCLC:

860923683