Inferring the relationship between soil temperature and the normalized difference vegetation index with machine learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12258v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:43:50 GMT
• Title: Inferring the relationship between soil temperature and the normalized difference vegetation index with machine learning
• Authors: Steven Mortier, Amir Hamedpour, Bart Bussmann, Ruth Phoebe Tchana Wandji, Steven Latr\'e, Bjarni D. Sigurdsson, Tom De Schepper and Tim Verdonck
• Abstract summary: Changes in climate can greatly affect the phenology of plants, which can have important feedback effects. In this study, we investigated the effect of soil temperature on the timing of the start of the season. We also explored the impact of other meteorological variables, including air temperature, precipitation, and irradiance, on the inter-annual variation in vegetation phenology.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Changes in climate can greatly affect the phenology of plants, which can have important feedback effects, such as altering the carbon cycle. These phenological feedback effects are often induced by a shift in the start or end dates of the growing season of plants. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) serves as a straightforward indicator for assessing the presence of green vegetation and can also provide an estimation of the plants' growing season. In this study, we investigated the effect of soil temperature on the timing of the start of the season (SOS), timing of the peak of the season (POS), and the maximum annual NDVI value (PEAK) in subarctic grassland ecosystems between 2014 and 2019. We also explored the impact of other meteorological variables, including air temperature, precipitation, and irradiance, on the inter-annual variation in vegetation phenology. Using machine learning (ML) techniques and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values, we analyzed the relative importance and contribution of each variable to the phenological predictions. Our results reveal a significant relationship between soil temperature and SOS and POS, indicating that higher soil temperatures lead to an earlier start and peak of the growing season. However, the Peak NDVI values showed just a slight increase with higher soil temperatures. The analysis of other meteorological variables demonstrated their impacts on the inter-annual variation of the vegetation phenology. Ultimately, this study contributes to our knowledge of the relationships between soil temperature, meteorological variables, and vegetation phenology, providing valuable insights for predicting vegetation phenology characteristics and managing subarctic grasslands in the face of climate change. Additionally, this work provides a solid foundation for future ML-based vegetation phenology studies.

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