A Remote Sensing Approach for Displaying the Changes in the Vegetation Cover at Az Zakhnuniyah Island at Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia

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Summary of methodology.

	Objective/subobjectives	Analysis type	Method	Raw data/data source
1	Vegetation analysis	Decadal	NDVI	Landsat surface reflectance
2	Biomass density	Single annual	Biomass carbon density	IPCC-CDIAC
3	Depth of marsh surface	Long term	DEM-bathymetry combination based	ALOS-PALSAR and GEBCO
4	Tidal range	Long term	M2 lunar constituent amplitude	ICDC-HAMTIDE
5	Soil salinity	Decadal	Soil salinity index	Landsat/Aster surface reflectance
6	Plant communities	Demi-decadal	Fractional cover; coral and seagrass datasets	PROBA-V Copernicus; UNEP; GBIF
7	Temperature	Decadal	Land surface temperature	Landsat TOA reflectance
8	Humidity	Decadal	Mean specific humidity	CFS reanalysis
9	Precipitation	Decadal	Quasiglobal rainfall dataset	CHIRPS