Detecting and mapping vegetation distribution on the Antarctic Peninsula from remote sensing data

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Fretwell, Peter T., Convey, Peter, Fleming, Andrew H., Peat, Helen J., Hughes, Kevin A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2011
• Subjects: Botany; Meteorology and Climatology; Data and Information; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Graham Land; Ryder; Ryder Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14046/

We present the first regional map of vegetation of anywhere on the Antarctic continent based on remote sensing (RS) data. We have used a normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for the examination of Landsat ETM data on the Antarctic Peninsula. The results show that 44.6 km2 (0.086%) of the st...