Beijing Climate Centre

Land Vegetation Distribution Monitoring in China

2006-08-22

According to EOS\MODIS (Terra) satellite remote sensing monitoring on 5 August 2006, the average leaf area index (LAI) in China is 1.8463, the provincial average LAI was shown in Table 1.

The terrestrial vegetation distribution is mainly over the Middle and Eastern China, and western of Xinjiang Province, among which, vegetation distribution over Fujian, Chinese Taiwan, Hainan, and Zhejiang Province was better (LAI greater than 2) (see Fig. 2).

Table 1 Provincial average LAI monitoring by EOS\MODIS

Beijing	1.118	Hunan	1.438
Tianjing	0.501	Guangdong	1.416
Hebei	0.746	Guangxi	1.108
Shanxi	0.707	Hainan	2.415
Inner Mongolia	0.625	Chongqing	1.613
Liaoning	0.996	Sichuan	1.217
Jiling	1.274	Guizhou	1.074
Heilongjiang	1.349	Yunnan	1.838
Shanghai	0.599	Tibet	0.401
Jiangsu	0.86	Shanxi	1.277
Zhejiang	2.299	Gansu	0.646
Anhui	1.39	Qianghai	0.401
Fuujian	2.738	Ningxia	0.271
Jiangxi	1.827	Xinjiang	0.335
Shandong	0.647	Chinese Taiwan	2.605
Henan	0.93	Chinese Hongkong	1.71
Hubei	1.453

Fig.1 Variation of LAI since 1 January 2006

Fig.2 Monitoring of terrestrial vegetation distribution on 5 Aug, 2006

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