Examining class boundaries variations of arctic vegetation in the past 17 years using MODIS satellite images

• Main Author: Zhao, Rui
• Other Authors: Nichol, Caroline
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2018
• Subjects: MODIS; circumpolar; ABoVE; CAVM; plant species; NDVI; supervised classification; MSc Geographical Information Science; GIS; Arctic; Browning; Climate change; Global warming; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35476

The concern about rising arctic temperature and its consequences has grown recently. There have been some researches using NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) to assess the arctic vegetation’s respond to the global warming. This paper uses both NDVI and trained supervised classification to...