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David Tenenbaum

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Examining the NDVI-rainfall relationship in the semi-arid Sahel using geographically weighted regression

Författare

  • Stefanos Georganos
  • Abdulhakim M. Abdi
  • David E. Tenenbaum
  • Stamatis Kalogirou

Summary, in English

The Sahel of Africa is an eco-sensitive zone with complex relations emerging between vegetation productivity and rainfall. These relationships are spatially non-stationary, non-linear, scale dependant and often fail to be successfully modelled by conventional regression models. In response, we apply a local modelling technique, Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), which allows for relationships to vary in space. We applied the GWR using climatic data (Normalized Vegetation Difference Index and rainfall) on an annual basis during the growing seasons (June–September) for 2002–2012. The operating scale of the Sahelian NDVI–rainfall relationship was found to stabilize around 160 km. With the selection of an appropriate scale, the spatial pattern of the NDVI-rainfall relationship was significantly better explained by the GWR than the traditional Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression. GWR performed better in terms of predictive power, accuracy and reduced residual autocorrelation. Moreover, GWR formed spatial clusters with local regression coefficients significantly higher or lower than those that the global OLS model resulted in, highlighting local variations. Areas near wetlands and irrigated lands displayed weak correlations while humid areas such as the Sudanian region at southern Sahel produced higher and more significant correlations. Finally, the spatial relationship of rainfall and NDVI displayed temporal variations as there were significant differences in the spatial trends throughout the study period.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2017-11

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

64-74

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Arid Environments

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Physical Geography
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Remote Sensing

Nyckelord

  • Geographically weighted regression
  • NDVI
  • Ecosystem ecology
  • Sahel
  • Earth observation
  • Drylands
  • Africa
  • Remote sensing
  • Spatial statistics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0140-1963