Differences in China Greening Characteristics and its Contribution to Global Greening

Abstract

With the rapid emergence of the global greening phenomenon under remote sensing monitoring, the prevailing trend of phenomenon analysis and traceability research is self-evident. However, identifying characteristics is basic research of the greening phenomenon, which sometimes subverts research results. The choice of method may directly affect the difference in the greening-browning range, which is easily overlooked. At the same time, influenced by the regional vegetation state’s basic value, the greening contribution’s spatialization still needs to be further verified. Based on the enhanced vegetation index results at the global kilometer-grid scale, this research chose to use the maximum value composite and the simple average method to explore the differences in China’s characteristic identification process initially. While paying attention to results and phenomena, scholars’ attention to basic research needs further improvement. The results show that the widely used two groups of basic methods have shown noticeable differences in greening and browning, and are affected by human activities, climate, geographical environment, etc. And this directional error and the phenomenon of hasty generalization are the most easily ignored in much basic research. The vegetation information considering the inherent stock and changing flux has quantified the greening contribution between regions. China, Brazil, and India dominate global greening, and Canada significantly contributes to browning. Some regions must promote the greening trend of changing flux while maintaining the inherent stock advantage.

Keywords: greening rate and degree, greening contribution, partial correlation analysis, greening-browning boundary