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During the past half century, NDVI has been widely used for vegetation mapping and monitoring as well as in the assessment of land-cover and associated changes. This is because remotely sensed satellite-derived datasets provide spatially continuous data (data that are not sampled at individual points) and yield time-series signatures from which temporal patterns, trends, variations, and relationships may be derived (Jacquin et al. 2010). This has not prevented the misuse of NDVI—care is needed in the use of any scientific methodology.
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Yengoh, G.T., Dent, D., Olsson, L., Tengberg, A.E., Tucker, C.J. (2015). Limits to the Use of NDVI in Land Degradation Assessment. In: Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple Scales. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24112-8_4
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