Pasture estimating with climate change over Mongolia using climate and NOAA/NDVI data

  • Erdenetuya, M. (National Remote Sensing Center, Ministry for Nature and the Environment of Mongolia) ;
  • Khudulmur, S. (National Remote Sensing Center, Ministry for Nature and the Environment of Mongolia) ;
  • Bolortsetseg, B. (Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring) ;
  • Natsagdorj, L. (Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring) ;
  • Batima, P. (Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

Geographical position and associated climatic influences can be a negative environmental condition that affects sustainable use of land resources, especially pastoral livestock production. Vegetation condition of the country is sensitively changes upon climate changes and human impacts. Within last 60 years data the annual air temperature has increased in 1.66 degrees in average and the total precipitation amount had almost no change. The main goal of this work is to relate climate change within last 20 years with pasture condition, estimated by NOAA/NDVI data set.

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