Monitoring of Drought in Central Yunnan,China Based on TVDI Model

Central Yunnan, constantly in a state of water shortage, is a region of fragile ecological environment whose regional agricultural production and economic development are seriously restricted by drought, despite its relatively developed social economy and dense population. In order to study the drought situation in this area, Landsat TM remote sensing image data of the region in 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2017 was selected for the construction of the NDVI-LST characteristic space temperature vegetation drought index (TVDI) using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the land surface temperature (LST). The validity of TVDI was verified by Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and Potential Evapotranspiration (PET), and the TVDI calculation results were divided into 5 drought levels: wet, normal, moderately dry, dry and severe dry. It is shown that: (1) The TVDI values of different land use types have obvious changes and good applicability;