Research Article
A Remote Sensing Approach for Displaying the Changes in the Vegetation Cover at Az Zakhnuniyah Island at Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
| ā | Objective/subobjectives | Analysis type | Method | Raw data/data source |
| 1 | Vegetation analysis | Decadal | NDVI | Landsat surface reflectance | 2 | Biomass density | Single annual | Biomass carbon density | IPCC-CDIAC | 3 | Depth of marsh surface | Long term | DEM-bathymetry combination based | ALOS-PALSAR and GEBCO | 4 | Tidal range | Long term | M2 lunar constituent amplitude | ICDC-HAMTIDE | 5 | Soil salinity | Decadal | Soil salinity index | Landsat/Aster surface reflectance | 6 | Plant communities | Demi-decadal | Fractional cover; coral and seagrass datasets | PROBA-V Copernicus; UNEP; GBIF | 7 | Temperature | Decadal | Land surface temperature | Landsat TOA reflectance | 8 | Humidity | Decadal | Mean specific humidity | CFS reanalysis | 9 | Precipitation | Decadal | Quasiglobal rainfall dataset | CHIRPS |
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