Drought Pattern Investigation through processing Normalized Vegetation Index-based Satellite Images

Taye Tolu Mekonnen*, Dr. Kumudha Raimond**
* Director, Website Administration and Promotional Materials Production, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.
** Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Computer Science & Technology, Karunya University, India.
Periodicity:September - November'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jpr.2.3.3756

Abstract

The emergence of satellite remote sensing technology has provided people with various appropriate, more accurate and easy to use tools for monitoring environmental conditions like the health of vegetation. Using the red and infrared band reflectances, for instance, enables the derivation of a vegetation index called Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in spatial and temporal domains. This index is vital to assess the evolution of drought as well as predict crop yield.

The aim of this study is to analyze a series of deviation of NDVI images, extract virtual drought objects from the series, and investigate for drought patterns from historical images for the growing season after appropriate preprocessing and segmentation of the images.

In this study, the virtual drought objects extracted from images over the growing season (June -September) were found to exhibit a given (similar) pattern for the historical drought years, taken in Ethiopia. The graphical pattern exhibited by historical occurrences of drought for specific areas on the ground, demonstrated nearly a similar time series except the fact that the intensities vary. This variance is an indicative of the difference in the severity level of the droughts at each specific area. Hence, given the implementation of the appropriate prediction tool, this similarity in the time series analysis of the historical data over a drought will give new views for ways in drought prediction for early warning and crop condition monitoring at near real-time.

Keywords

Drought Prediction, NDVI Images, Virtual Drought Object, Pattern.

How to Cite this Article?

Taye, T. M., and Raimond, K. (2015). Drought Pattern Investigation Through Processing Normalized Vegetation Index-Based Satellite Images. i-manager’s Journal on Pattern Recognition, 2(3), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpr.2.3.3756

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