[1]JING Juanli,WANG Yongfeng.Spatial and Temporal Variation of NDVI and Its Relations with Climate Factors in the Southwest Karst Area[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2016,23(05):169-174.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
23
Number of periods:
2016 05
Page number:
169-174
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Public date:
2016-10-28
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Spatial and Temporal Variation of NDVI and Its Relations with Climate Factors in the Southwest Karst Area
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JING Juanli1,2, WANG Yongfeng1,2
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1. College of Geomatics and Geoinformation, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China;
2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics, Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China
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- Keywords:
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southwest karst area; NDVI; climate factor; correlation analysis
- CLC:
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TP79;P463.2
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- Abstract:
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The spatial and temporal variation of NDVI and its relationship with climate factors in the southwest karst area of China during the period from 1998 to 2012 have been examined based on SPOT NDVI data and temperature/precipitation data from meteorological stations by using linear regression and correlation analysis. The results showed that: (1) during the past 15 years, NDVI overall increased significantly and with the growth rate of 0.052 per decade, maximum NDVI appeared in September and minimum in February, areas with NDVI increase accounted for 97.13% and about 17.60% of area increased significantly (p < 0.05), the degraded areas accounted for 2.87% and with 0.35% passing p < 0.05 significance test; (2) at the annual scale, correlations between NDVI and temperature/precipitation had the distinct spatial difference in the southwest karst area of China, the correlation of NDVI with temperature was positive in 42.75% of the total area, and negative in the rest area, while its correlation with precipitation was positive in 20.15% of the study area, and negative for the rest area, above analysis indicated that temperature affected growth more significantly than precipitation; (3) the correlations between NDVI and temperature/precipitation at the monthly scale were higher than the annual scale, the area with positive correlation between NDVI and temperature accounted for 91.62% of the total area, and area with significant positive correlation (p < 0.05) accounted for 75.94% of the total area; 94.29% of NDVI was positively related with month precipitation, and significantly positive correlation (p < 0.05) accounted for about 51.05%. The statistics reflected that the vegetation growth was mainly affected by the seasonal variation of hydro-thermal factors. NDVI was significantly affected by the preceding one month’s temperature and the preceding two months’ precipitation, and there was obvious lag-effect.