A Landsat-based vegetation trend product of the Tibetan Plateau for the time-period 1990-2018.

ABSTRACT: The Tibetan Plateau is a unique, biodiverse ecosystem with an important role in the climate and hydrological system of Asia. Its vegetation supports important functions including fodder provision, erosion prevention and water retention. Assessing vegetation trends of the Tibetan Plateau is crucial to understand effects of recent climate and land-use changes. Most existing vegetation trend products covering the entire Tibetan Plateau have a coarse spatial grain and cover short temporal ranges. This hampers their applicability in studies conducted at local scales where land-use decisions take place and at time scales where climate changes become apparent. Here, we present vegetation trend products for the entire Tibetan Plateau at a spatial resolution of 30 m for the time period 1990-2018. T

SUBMITTER: Fassnacht FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544617 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature