DOI: 10.6073/pasta/ef0b7b8f667e0c4e07fc02694c7040ce
title: Numerical summaries of vegetation indices and land surface temperature derived from remotely sensed imagery in Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS) neighborhoods of central Arizona

description: This project calculates two vegetation indices: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), and land surface temperature (LST) from remotely sensed imagery. NDVI and SAVI are calculated from the 2010, 2013, 2015, and 2017 NAIP imagery (1m resolution). LST is calculated from Landsat 5 and 8 imagery (30m resolution) from summer months in 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. Summary values are calculated for each of the aforementioned data resources for 2011 and 2017 Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS) study area boundaries. Tabular summaries of the mean, median, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation of the NDVI, SAVI, and LST values for the 2011 and 2017 Phoenix Area Social Survey boundaries (45 and 12 neighborhoods, respectively) are provided. Javascript code used to process NDVI, SAVI, and LST imagery, and R code used to calculate numerical summaries of NDVI, SAVI, and LST in PASS neighborhoods are included with this dataset. Locations and areas of PASS study neighborhood boundaries are available through the Environmental Data Initiative: –PASS 2011: Harlan S., R. Aggarwal, D. Childers, J. Declet-Barreto, S. Earl, K. Larson, M. Nation, D. Ruddell, K. Smith, P. Warren, A. Wutich, A. York. 2018. Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS): 2011. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f39a2c9d8e78e6d7a949e93af12e9bf9 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=631 –PASS 2017: Larson K., A. York, R. Andrade, S. Wittlinger. 2019. Phoenix Area Social Survey (PASS): 2017. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/98dd5b92117e9d728b09e582fb4d1b17 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=667 Source data (NDVI, SAVI, and LST) are available through the Environmental Data Initiative: –NDVI 2010 Stuhlmacher M., L. Watkins. 2019. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from 2010 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/8a465e9b76035bffeb00f3a6134eb913 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=669 –NDVI 2013 Stuhlmacher M., L. Watkins. 2019. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from 2013 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/3382f4ad4ac4287768ded16ccbdb6f59 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=670 –NDVI 2015 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from 2015 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/1cec448d93395f635506e3abb8aa841d newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=671 –NDVI 2017 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from 2017 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/8b4b471a33c83f274c35dcdc0b5dec75 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=672 –SAVI 2010 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) derived from 2010 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f4988cde318c85b76b0edbaa3219d682 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=673 –SAVI 2013 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) derived from 2013 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/82f2bd5d8f9e4e7ae6b82066b957e37d newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=674 –SAVI 2015 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) derived from 2015 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/281c4942e95e9f3246ca67203ec081d0 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=675 –SAVI 2017 Stuhlmacher M. 2019. Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) derived from 2017 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) data for the central Arizona region. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/f715f5f896f5f47118240e3f174e476b newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=676 –LST Stuhlmacher M., L. Watkins. 2019. Remotely-sensed Land Surface Temperature (LST) for the central Arizona region during summer months over five-year periods: 1985-2015. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/c526299a0e4e4f7d6e921aac18528e24 newest revision: https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=677