Using NDVI to analyze fire disturbance and forest recovery in the Yushan National Park of Central Taiwan

Meng Fen Lee; Teng Chiu Lin; Su Fen Wang

Using NDVI to analyze fire disturbance and forest recovery in the Yushan National Park of Central Taiwan

Meng Fen Lee^*, Teng Chiu Lin, Su Fen Wang

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Abstract

Fire is a major disturbance in high mountain ecosystems of the tropics. On January 6, 1993, the largest forest fire occurred in the Tataka area since the Yushan National Park (YSNP) was established (1985), affecting 280 hectares of forest. The vegetation conditions in YSNP were examined using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from SPOT images to estimate the vegetation damage and recovery associated with the fire event. NDVI variations from 1990 to 2006 were calculated. Spatial patterns on each image were compared to thosebefore the fire disturbance to determine the recovery pattern. The results indicated that the vegetation recovered rapidly in the first 6 years following the fire. Nonetheless, the recovery rates are different among different vegetation cover types. The coniferous forest recovered more rapidly than the mixed forest. The vegetation cover has not attained the level before the fire 14 years after the fire.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009
Pages	1632-1637
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009 - Beijing, China Duration: 2009 Oct 18 → 2009 Oct 23

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Name	30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009
Volume	3

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Other	30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009
Country/Territory	China
City	Beijing
Period	2009/10/18 → 2009/10/23

Keywords

Forest fire
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Post-fire vegetation recovery

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Computer Networks and Communications

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Using NDVI to analyze fire disturbance and forest recovery in the Yushan National Park of Central Taiwan. / Lee, Meng Fen; Lin, Teng Chiu; Wang, Su Fen.
30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009. 2009. p. 1632-1637 (30th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing 2009, ACRS 2009; Vol. 3).

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