Recent research shows that China is experiencing significant greening, with afforestation
initiatives being the main cause. Quantitative calculation of vegetation change influencing …

China initiated the “Grain for Green Project” in 1999 to mitigate soil erosion. The vegetation
cover of the Chinese Loess Plateau, one of the most erosive regions in the world, has been …

Located across the equator, the East Africa region is among regions of Africa which have
previously known the severe vegetation degradation. Some known reasons are associated …

Abstract The Vegetation Health Index (VHI) has been widely used for monitoring and
characterising droughts. This index takes into account ecosystem features in terms of …

Understanding vegetation dynamics and its response to climate changes is important for
revealing the mechanisms of terrestrial ecosystem behaviour, predicting future vegetation …

Alpine meadow and alpine steppe are the two most widely distributed nonzonal vegetation
types in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the context of global climate change, the differences in …

Dryland degradation is an issue of international significance as dryland regions play a
substantial role in global food production. Remotely sensed data provide the only long term …

Vegetation as a key environmental indicator both influences and is influenced by other
factors. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index …

Vegetation dynamics have been visibly influenced by climate variability. The Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been the most commonly used index in vegetation …

Ecosystem reconstruction via vegetation restoration is key to comprehensive renewal of the
fragile ecological environment of an open-pit mine dump. To investigate vegetation …