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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 308, 2021
2021 6th International Conference on Materials Science, Energy Technology and Environmental Engineering (MSETEE 2021)
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Article Number | 02005 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Environmental Ecology and Biochemical Testing | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130802005 | |
Published online | 27 September 2021 |
Evaluation of MODIS-based Vegetation Restoration After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake
1. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, V5A 1S6, Canada
2. College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, The United Kingdom
3. School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430000, China
† These authors contributed equally.
* Corresponding author’s address: cja55@sfu.ca
Mountainous vegetation recovery after major earthquakes has been significant for preventing post-seismic soil erosion and geo-hazards. Magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake struck western Sichuan, China in 2008, caused salient number of geological hazards and caused major vegetation damage. This recovery process could be a very long and fluctuating. And Remote sensing has been an important method of vegetation restoration monitoring. This study aims to use remote sensing technology data to analyze the post-seismic vegetation damage and recovery situation of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake over years to 2020, and find the relevant factors affecting the restoration of ecological vegetation. This paper examined the vegetation recovery processes following the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake using 16-day interval MODIS normalized difference vegetation index time series from 2000 to 2020. It has been found that the vegetation recovery rate generally increased by years, the entire study area has recovered 49.89% by 2020. In addition, by combining remote sensing imagery and geographic information data, we also found that the heavily affected vegetation areas are mainly located along the southern part of the earthquake surface rupture, where have a very high slope which mainly over 60 degrees. It makes this part having higher probabilities to experiences secondary natural hazards and a fluctuating vegetation recovery rate. Through this research, it can be concluded that remote sensing is an effective method for monitoring vegetation dynamics in a long series. For soil and soil retention and ecological vegetation protection of landslides after the earthquake, it should be more concerned about the areas where have steep slope that over 60 degrees.
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