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In this chapter, land-cover change based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from the NOAA AVHRR Global Vegetation Index (GVI) for the Lhasa area at the central Tibetan Plateau from 1985 to 1999 is presented, and its sensitivity to climate conditions is discussed, followed by analysis on vegetation phenologies and dynamics using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The time series of NDVI demonstrate a positive trend from 1985 to 1999, which means that general vegetation biomass on land surface presents increasing, and this trend is strongly associated with increased rainfall and temperature from the mid-1980s to 1990s. The correlation analysis shows that the NDVI is more sensitive to precipitation (r = 0.75, P < 0.01) than temperature (r = 0.63, P < 0.01) in this semiarid climate zone. The study also indicated that DFT is a very useful tool to understand vegetation phenologies and dynamic change through decomposition of temporal data to frequency domain.

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This chapter is derived in part from the author’s article published in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research on January 28, 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1657/1523-0430(07-501)[CHU]2.0.CO;2.

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Chu, D. (2020). Land-Cover Change. In: Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Region. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7580-4_7

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