Changes in vegetation, particularly a transition from grasses to shrubs, has been reported in the North American Arctic (Sturm et al., 2001) and elsewhere (Tape et al., 2006), and satellite imagery has indicated an increase in
the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI, a measure of photosynthetically active biomass) over much of the Arctic (Slayback et al., 2003).
In this project, published in the review Building and Environment, they have used Landsat 7 ETM + and Sentinel - 2 satellite images to obtain
the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) and ground temperature.