Volume : IV, Issue : III, March - 2014
Assessment of Vegetation Cover Through NDVI, Bangalore India
Malini A Shetty, R. K. Somashekar
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This paper assesses the distribution of vegetation in eight zones of BBMP also called Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike, and compares their condition with indicators of vegetative health for the city as a whole. The evaluation is based on use of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) deliberated from 2004 Quick Bird satellite imagery. In our application, we examine spatial variation and mean NDVI for each zones. We then compare these results to the mean NDVI for different zones and discuss implications for use of the NDVI in Vegetation assessment of BBMP. Our results indicate that significant differences of mean NDVI values between the zones. Among eight zones high mean NDVI value was observed in Byatarayanpura and Dasarahalli zone showed lowest. In the current study vegetation assessment across the zones can epitomize how urban vegetation cover and its associated benefits vary across the BBMP and this data can be used to compare urban vegetation cover between the zones.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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Malini A Shetty, R.K. Somashekar Assessment of Vegetation Cover Through NDVI, Bangalore India Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. III
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