Retrieving groundwater depth in the lower reaches of Tarim River by NDVI

Qi Shen; Yaning Chen; Jianhua Xu; Yan Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.813055

3 November 2008 Retrieving groundwater depth in the lower reaches of Tarim River by NDVI

Qi Shen, Yaning Chen, Jianhua Xu, Yan Zhang

Proceedings Volume 7145, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Monitoring and Assessment of Natural Resources and Environments; 714521 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813055
Event: Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Geo-Simulation and Virtual GIS Environments, 2008, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

The changes of the coverage of vegetation and groundwater depth during the period of ecological construction and environmental protection are the most important two indicators of the level of success in ecological water transportation project in lower reaches of Tarim River.In this study, a new way to predict the groundwater depth in the arid regions has been presented. The spatial and temporal change of vegetation states in lower reaches of Tarim River under the ecological water transpiration have been discussed by using NDVI data derived from SPOT VEGETATION (VGT) NDVI S10 time sequence image data for the year 1999, 2003 and 2006. It is found that the groundwater depth played a dominant role in determining vegetation growth status in the lower reaches of the Tarim River. After the ecological water transportation, the vegetation has been restored in both sides of the watercourse stretching to Taitema Lake, which extend to 3 km in Akedun section, but decline along the stream flow as 1km in Kaogan section. However the area, which is 3km to 15km away from watercourse, has not been influenced obviously. And the area far away (excess 15km) has no influence. Statistic analysis shows that the groundwater depth has negative relationship with NDVI. And the groundwater depth in lower reaches of Tarim River has been successfully inversed through the statistic method; the simulation precision is 75%.

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Qi Shen, Yaning Chen, Jianhua Xu, and Yan Zhang "Retrieving groundwater depth in the lower reaches of Tarim River by NDVI", Proc. SPIE 7145, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Monitoring and Assessment of Natural Resources and Environments, 714521 (3 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.813055

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Environmental sensing

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