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ISO 19115 Topic Category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, biota

Other Subject Keywords

ephemeral stream channels, monsoon season, Landsat TM, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI

Place Keywords

Yuma Proving Ground, Sonoran Desert, Southwestern United States, Arizona

Mean of the Top Ten Percent of NDVI Values in the Yuma Proving Ground during Monsoon Season, 1986-2011

This study uses growth in vegetation during the monsoon season measured from LANDSAT imagery as a proxy for measured rainfall. NDVI values from 26 years of pre- and post-monsoon season Landsat imagery were derived across Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in southwestern Arizona, USA. The LANDSAT imagery (1986-2011) was downloaded from USGS’s GlobeVis website (http://glovis.usgs.gov/). Change in NDVI was calculated within a set of 2,843 Riparian Area Polygons (RAPs) up to 1 km in length defined in ESRI ArcMap 10.2. Because this work resulted from a Masters Thesis at Colorado State University, data will also be served to the public by CSU at https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/10217/170347.

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Author(s) Amy N. Birtwistle, Melinda J. Laituri, Brian P. Bledsoe, Jonathan M Friedman orcid
Publication Date 2015-10-09
Beginning Date of Data 1986-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2014-01-01
Data Contact
Jonathan M Friedman
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7ZK5DSB
Citation Birtwistle, A.N., Laituri, M.J., Bledsoe, B.P., and Friedman, J.M., 2015, Mean of the Top Ten Percent of NDVI Values in the Yuma Proving Ground during Monsoon Season, 1986-2011: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7ZK5DSB.
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Metadata Date 2020-08-20
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