Vegetation recovery monitoring over the waste dump in Haizhou opencast coalmine area, China, during 1975-2000 using NDVI and VF index

作者：Su Wei; Sun Zhong Ping; Li Dao Liang; Ramsankaran Raaj^*; Zhu Xiang; Guo Xiang Yun

来源：Photonirvachak-Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2009, 37(4): 631-645.

DOI：10.1007/s12524-009-0059-x

• Vegetation recovery monitoring
• Waste dump of Haizhou opencast coalmine area
• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
• Vegetation Fraction (VF)

Vegetation condition monitoring has been done from 1975 to 2000 in the waste dump of Haizhou opencast coalmine area, China, using remote sensing techniques with the objective of improving our understanding of the temporal and spatial variation of vegetation recovery in the mining dump. Four historical vegetation indexes (NDVI, VF, soil brightness and vegetation greenness) from two Landsat 2 MSS images and two Landsat 5 TM images are extracted and analyzed. For the purpose of comparison and analysis two improved techniques such as normalization grading of change slope and image segmentation were used in this study. Based on the results obtained through the above analysis two conclusions are derived: (1) vegetation recovery in the study area is in an improved condition, (2) two remote sensing based vegetation indexes such as VF and NDVI are the optimal parameters to monitor vegetation condition, which could be used as the indicators of land reclamation progress in the mining area.

• 出版日期2009-12
• 单位中国农业大学; 环境保护部卫星环境应用中心