Using vegetation indices to identify high chlorophyll tree cover in floodplains for carbon sequestration

Abstract

The dynamics of changes of Chlorophyll vegetation index (CVI) and Red-edge chlorophyll index (CIRE) for plant cover during the springsummer period on river floodplains has been studied. Landscape sections with high photosynthetic activity were identified through GIS analysis. Various types of plant communities that accumulated chlorophyll during certain time periods, have been determined, as well as the areas of these types. A list of measures was proposed for plots of vegetation with an active accumulation of chlorophyll, and for plots where it is observed decreasing of its level, as well as for plots with an absence of considerable change of the content of chlorophyll level.