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Assessment of drought impacts on vegetation health: a case study in Kedah


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Othman, M. and Ash’aari, Z. H. and Muharam, F. M. and Sulaiman, W. N. A. and Hamisan, H. and Mohamad, N. D. and Othman, N. H. (2016) Assessment of drought impacts on vegetation health: a case study in Kedah. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, 37 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1755-1307; ESSN: 1755-1315

Abstract

Prolonged drought in the early of 2014 has caused Malaysia to experience water supply shortage which directly affects both health and growth of vegetation. Thus this study aims to assess the risk vegetation areas that were impacted during 2014's drought by integrating the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Normalized Differentiation Vegetation Index (NDVI) methods. These two methods were able to assess the risk areas for the vegetation by measuring its health and classifying them according to its severity while considering the rainfall reduction at the specific time and location. The results obtained from this study shows that the central and north west of Kedah was vulnerable to the occurrence of drought. Kedah was more impacted by the dry event during the northeast monsoon. This study is significant as a fundamental input for further research and as an alternative approach by the application of space technology.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Environmental Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/37/1/012072
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Keywords: Vegetation health; Kedah
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 12 Dec 2017 10:13
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2017 10:13
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55138
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