“…Several studies concentrated on the drought and salinity trend for the future using vegetation indices as an input factor (Huynh, Truong Chi, & Dan, 2012;Son, Chen, Chen, Chang, & Minh, 2012;Tran, Tran, & Kervyn, 2015), while others applied straight-forward analysis for investigating land use land cover change (Tran, 2018(Tran, , 2020. Recently, the time-series analysis of vegetation change has been conducted (Tran, Tran, Myint, Latorre-Carmona, et al, 2019). However, studies that focus on the persistent level of spatiotemporal vegetation trend in the Mekong River Delta are missing.…”