( Above ) General vegetation coverage along 40 ’ wide pond buffer zones . Interpretation of the 2021 NDVI dataset was used to determine the category of buffer coverage : trees and dense shrubs (+ 0.3 ), shrubs ( 0.2 – 0.3 ), grasses and low shrubs ( 0.1 – 0.2 ), sparse vegetation and soil ( 0 – 0.1 ), and soil / water (< 0 ). ( Below ) Trends in vegetation productivity using regression analysis of NDVI datasets from 2015 – 2021 .
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