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WATER, LAND AND FOREST RESOURCES

LAND DESERTIFICATION MONITORING IN ATYRAU REGION BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA

Yryszhan Zhakypbek 1 , Ayaulym Toishy 1 , Yerlan Uteyev 2 , Serik Tursbekov 3 , Zhenis Kozhaev 3

1 Kazakh National Research Technical University named after K.I.Satpayev; 2 Kazakh National Agrarian Research University; 3 Mining and Metallurgical Institute named after O.A.Baikonurov

doi.org/10.37884/1-2025/32 pp. 280-287 Admitted 27.01.2025 Published 30.03.2025

Abstract

Desertification exacerbates problems such as poverty, poor health, food insecurity, loss of biodiversity, water scarcity, climate change, and forced migration. Therefore, desertification is considered one of the most important problems leading the global socio–economic and environmental situation to crisis.

Land degradation and desertification currently pose the most global catastrophic problems in the context of climate change and uncontrolled anthropogenic activities. In recent decades, remote sensing methods have been widely used as tools for assessing spatial and temporal trends. Therefore, data from Landsat, Sentinel-2, MODIS, CBERS, and PlanetScope (Planet Labs) satellites are used to monitor the earth. In the article, when assessing the degradation and desertification of lands in the Atyrau region, the index of normalized vegetation difference (NDVI), changes in soil cover, the leaf zone index (LAI) and the extended vegetation index (EVI), precipitation and a set of vegetation data for the districts of Makhambet, Kurmangazy and Kyzylkoga were considered. Also, in these areas, using Google Earth Engine, Kurmangazy's indicators were demonstrated - 10.88% (NDVI -0.272), Makhambet - 6.06% (NDVI -0.067) and Kyzylkoga - 3.39% (NDVI -0.098) for the vegetation status of agricultural lands for the period 2010-2020.

Atyrau, Landsat, NDVI, Google Earth Engine, desertification, remote sensing, monitoring.

01 Introduction

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