Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats

The Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset details surface reflectance measured as NDVI. NDVI provides a proxy for the amount and/or the relative 'greenness' of vegetation. Data collection was carried out at six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England, each of these sites consisted of a saltmarsh area and adjacent mudflat area, twenty two sampling quadrats were placed on each area. A single NDVI observation was taken at each quadrat. Spectral reflectance was measured using a portable spectrometer. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme.

归一化差异植被指数（Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI）数据集详细记录了以NDVI形式测得的地表反射率。NDVI可作为植被数量与/或相对“绿度”的替代指标。数据采集工作于2013年冬、夏两季，在6个潮间带站点开展。其中3个站点位于英格兰西北部的莫克姆湾（Morecambe Bay），剩余3个站点位于英格兰东南部的埃塞克斯（Essex）；每个站点均包含盐沼区域与邻近潮滩区域，两类区域各布设22个采样样方，每个样方采集1次NDVI观测数据。光谱反射率通过便携式光谱仪测得。本数据集作为“海岸生物多样性与生态系统服务可持续性（Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability, CBESS）：NE/J015644/1”项目的一部分收集所得。该项目获得了生物多样性与生态系统服务可持续性（Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability, BESS）计划的资助。BESS是一项为期6年（2011-2017年）的研究计划，由英国自然环境研究委员会（Natural Environment Research Council, NERC）与英国生物技术与生物科学研究委员会（Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC）联合资助，隶属于英国“顺应环境变化（Living with Environmental Change, LWEC）”计划。