Grassland Monitoring System for Sustainable Utilisation in Inner Mongolia, China. 2. Real-Time Monitoring of Grass and Animal Interaction Using Satellite Data and GPS

Presenter Information

K. Kawamura, Gifu University, JapanFollow
T. Akiyama, Gifu University, JapanFollow
H. Yokota, Nagoya University, Japan
M. Inoue, Nagoya University, Japan
Taisuke Yasuda, Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Sciences, JapanFollow
O. Watanabe, National Agricultural Research Center for Western Regions, Japan
Y. Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Description

Overgrazing is one of the primary causes of desertification in Inner Mongolia grassland. A previous paper estimated herbage quantity and quality (Kawamura et al., 2005), and quantified the grazing intensity on grass biomass using Terra MODIS satellite, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and GIS (Kawamura et al., 2003). The aim of this study is real-time monitoring of both grass biomass and animal behaviour to evaluate the effect of grazing intensity (GI) on grass growth rate during the growing season using Terra MODIS satellite and GPS.

Citation

Kawamura, K.; Akiyama, T.; Yokota, H.; Inoue, M.; Yasuda, Taisuke; Watanabe, O.; and Wang, Y., "Grassland Monitoring System for Sustainable Utilisation in Inner Mongolia, China. 2. Real-Time Monitoring of Grass and Animal Interaction Using Satellite Data and GPS" (2023). IGC Proceedings (1993-2023). 62.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/20/themeC/62