Spatiotemporal Assessment of Vegetation Indices and Land Cover for Erbil City and Its Surrounding Using Modis Imageries

The rate of global urbanization is exponentially increasing and reducing areas of natural vegetation. Remote sensing can determine spatiotemporal changes in vegetation and urban land cover. The aim of this work is to assess spatiotemporal variations of two vegetation indices (VI), the Normalized Dif...

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Main Authors: Hussein Shwan O., Kovács Ferenc, Tobak Zalán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of Environmental Geography
Subjects:
evi
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jengeo-2017-0004