VEGETATION CHANGES ANALYSIS USING NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE MEVASI FOREST

The iipresent iistudy iimonitorsiithe iiinterrelationship iiof iiNormalized iidifference iivegetation iiindex ii(NDVI) iiwith iiland iisurface iitemperature ii(LST)iiin iiMevasi iiforest iiin iiNandurbariidistrict, iiMaharashtra, iiIndia, iiusing iiLandsat iisatellite iisensor iifor iithe iiseason iiof ii2013 iiand ii2021. iiClimate iichange iiis iicaused iiby iiglobal iiwarming iidue iito iihuman iiactivities iithat iicontribute iito iigreenhouse iigas ii(GHG) iiemissions. iiLand-based iihuman iiactivitiesiiresult iiin iichangesiiin iidense iivegetation, iiespecially iiforest iistandsiito iiland iicover iiwith iilow iivegetation iidensity.iiiRemotely iisensed iimultispectral iidata iifrom iiLandsat-8 iiis iihighly iiusefuliiin iivegetation iichange iianalysisiibased iion iiremote iisensing iiindicesiiand iitemperature iiparameters. iiNDVI ii(Normalized iiDifference iiVegetation iiIndex)-LST ii(Land iiSurface iiTemperature) iirelation iiis iiessential iito iiunderstanding iithe iiclimatological iieffects iion iivegetation iion iiregional iiscales. iiThresholdbased iiclassification iihasiibeen iiused iito iirealize iivegetation iichange iiin iimulti-temporal iistudies.Similarly, iiin iithis iistudy iiNDVI iibased iiclassification iihas iibeen iiapplied iito iiunderstand iithe iichange iiin iithe iiarea iicovered iiby iivegetation iiand iiwaterbodies. iiOverall, iia iiweak iinegative iicorrelation ii ii(r ii= ii0.647) iiwas iifound iibetween iiNDVI-LST iiand iiobserved iithat iiouriiresultsiibased iion iicorrelation iianalysisiireaffirmed iipreviousiifindingsiiforiiLST-NDVI iirelationsiiin iisemiarid iiregions