Mean of the Top Ten Percent of NDVI Values in the Yuma Proving Ground during Monsoon Season, 1986-2011

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This study uses growth in vegetation during the monsoon season measured from LANDSAT imagery as a proxy for measured rainfall. NDVI values from 26 years of pre- and post-monsoon season Landsat imagery were derived across Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in southwestern Arizona, USA. The LANDSAT imagery (1986-2011) was downloaded from USGS’s GlobeVis website (http://glovis.usgs.gov/). Change in NDVI was calculated within a set of 2,843 Riparian Area Polygons (RAPs) up to 1 km in length defined in ESRI ArcMap 10.2. Because this work resulted from a Masters Thesis at Colorado State University, data will also be served to the public by CSU at https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/10217/170347.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7ZK5DSB
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5786aa1be4b0e02680c150b9.xml

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  • yuma-proving-ground
  • monsoon-season
  • southwestern-united-states
  • climatologymeteorologyatmosphere
  • biota
  • ndvi
  • sonoran-desert
  • landsat-tm
  • arizona
  • usgs-5786aa1be4b0e02680c150b9
  • ephemeral-stream-channels
  • normalized-difference-vegetation-index

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