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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
Satellite technologies for climate change mitigation in forest ecological monitoring
Marika Tatishvili, Maia Meladze and Irina Mkurnalidze
Georgian Technical University, Georgia
The one of Earth Observing System (EOS) program component is the investigation of influence of Earth vegetation on
large-scale global processes. The most applicable product from satellite observation is Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index that is used in observation on vegetation. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is an index of plant
“greenness” or photosynthetic activity, and is one of the most commonly used vegetation indices. Vegetation indices are based
on the observation that different surfaces reflect different types of light differently. Photosynthetically active vegetation, in
particular, absorbs most of the red light that hits it while reflecting much of the near infrared light. Vegetation that is dead or
stressed reflects more red-light and less near infrared light. Vegetation index is important ecosystem variable widely used in
variety of bio-geophysical applications. The use of NDVI, GVF and VTI in forest ecological monitoring in Georgia is reviewed
in presented article.
Biography
Marika Tatishvili is Head of Weather Forecasting, Natural and Technogenic Modeling Division of Institute of Hydrometeorology of Georgian Technical University.
She is author of more than 76 scientific articles and three monographs. She is member of University scientific board.
Marika Tatishvili et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2016, 7:9(Suppl)