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:: Volume 7, Issue 15 (2-2020) ::
PEC 2020, 7(15): 125-140 Back to browse issues page
Investigating the applicability of conventional vegetation indices for vegetation change detection in different environmental conditions
Komeil Rokni * , Mohammad Gholizadeh
Gonbad Kavous University, rokni@gonbad.ac.ir , rokni@gonbad.ac.ir
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Vegetation indices have been developed to characterize and extract the Earth's vegetation cover from space using satellite images. In order to detect vegetation changes, usually temporal images are independently analyzed or vegetation index differencing is implemented. A review on previous studies reveal  that extracting vegetation cover or vegetation changes usually NDVI and EVI are used  in spite of developing several vegetation indices. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to compare and investigate the applicability of these indices in detection of vegetation changes in different climate and environmental conditions. In so doing, several test sites in Malaysia, Iran and Italy with different environmental conditions including Tropical, Subtropical and Mediterranean were selected.Then, index differencing method using temporal Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI images belonging to the years of 2001 and 2014 were applied. In order to evaluate the accuracy of the output maps, confusion matrix was made to calculate overall accuracy and kappa index. Subsequently, commission and omission errors were calculated to assess nature of the errors in the results. Accuracy assessment analysis indicated that the results of EVI in some of the test sites were acceptable excluding all test sites with variety of weather and environmental conditions, NDVI  which provided higher accuracyoutcomes in detection of vegetation changes.

 
Keywords: Vegetation index, Change detection, Landsat, NDVI, EVI
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2018/08/4 | Accepted: 2018/11/27 | Published: 2020/03/17
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