The concept of desertification

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Table of contents

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Geography and climate of the study area
1.3 Aim of the study
2. Theory
2.1 The concept of desertification
2.2 NDVI as an indicator of desertification
3. Method
3.1 Source data
3.2 Visualization and Analysis
4. Results
4.1 Azerbaijan
4.2 Russia
4.3 Kazakhstan
4.5 Turkmenistan
4.6 Iran
4.7 Summary
5. Discussions
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1a-c: Monthly mean precipitation in mm/day, for the years 1982-2006
Appendix 2: Drought Index, Azerbaijan
Appendix 3: Clipping of the USSR atlas
Appendix 4: Vegetation classification maps
Appendix 5: Histograms, showing vegetation types distribution through 1982 – 2006
Appendix 6: NDVI Standard deviation maps
Appendix 7: NDVI Standard deviation charts
Appendix 8: NDVI Standard deviation charts and histogram, Azerbaijan