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A shape-based approach to spatio-temporal data analysis using satellite imageryAuthors: Darpan Baheti,K S Rajan Date: 2018-08-18 Report no: IIIT/TR/2018/14 AbstractMany socio-environmental aspects manifest themselves over space and time, interacting at varying scales of these dimensions. Satellite imagery, available repetitively over a region, provide important clues of these observations across these dimensions. But, also pose enormous challenges in terms of data processing, extracting significant patterns (indicating the underlying processes) and be able to further model them as scientific knowledge of the environmental process. In this paper, an effort has been made to propose a time-variant analysis method based on the shape characteristics of the vegetation response over time to help identify regions of significant changes. The study covers four agricultural-year periods between 2008 and 2012 over the district of West Godavari, in south of India. This approach shows that the effect of 2009 drought year on the agricultural practices vary spatially depending on the access to resources and the time-lag that manifests itself in such processes. In this study, we also find that nearly 80% of the region is well endowed and hence resilient to the climatic vagaries. Full article: pdf Centre for Spatial Informatics |
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