Land Degradation of the Souss River Basin, Morocco

Schmies, Alexander
2018
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Land Degradation of the Souss River Basin, Morocco

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2018

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Land Degradation is a critical problem, leading to hunger, poverty, and displacement worldwide. This project aims to contribute to the methodology of analyzing the process of land degradation. Changes in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) were analyzed in the Souss River Basin, Morocco, from 1999 to 2017 using Landsat 7 imagery. The average NDVI of the entire area of interest increased over the span of the study, which suggests at face value that there was actually an improvement in land quality. However, we have and discuss reasons to believe that this suggestion is not correct and make recommendations for future projects.

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Faculty Advisor: Katsumi Matsumoto

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This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

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Schmies, Alexander. (2018). Land Degradation of the Souss River Basin, Morocco. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/196091.

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