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DocumentAnalysis of the normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI) for the detection of degradation of forest coverage in Mexico 2008–2009
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ArticleThe use of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess urban forests dynamics in West Africa: A case study of Mbao Classified Forest, Dakar (Senegal)
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Mbao Classified Forest is the largest urban forest in Dakar. It covers an area of 720 hectares and is the most important green lung of the city. This forest plays a key role in terms of carbon storage and sequestration, air pollution removal, and more generally in ecosystem services provision. Hence it is urgent to monitor the dynamic of this forest over the past twenty years (1998-2018) because a lot of infrastructures including a water pumping station and a highway were established inside during this period. These installations make it subject to encroachments and the risk of depletion that could compromise its existence. The aim of this this paper is to assess urban forest dynamics using artificial intelligence and vegetation indices. To achieve this goal the first step is to perform a forest inventory. We opted for a sampling rate of 0.5%. The area of a plot in the i-Tree Eco inventory is 391 m2 with a radius of 11.16 m, which resulted in a total number of 90 plots. The variables measured for each tree are D.B.H, total height, crown width. The allometric equations were used to compute the above-ground biomass. The NDVI of every plot was computed from Landsat datasets followed by the development of a linear regression model with NDVI as the independent variable and biomass as the dependent variable. Landsat imagery enables the NDVI computation of each plot during the twenty past years and using the regression model, the biomass was determined over this period. Our results provide a sound basis to advocate the safeguarding of Mbao Classified Forest. Keywords: Urban forest, biomass, NDVI, inventory. ID: 3621874 -
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