Analysing the impact of large mammal herbivores on vegetation structure in Eastern African savannas combining high spatial resolution multispectral remote sensing data and field observations

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This repository includes processed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) metrics derived from Copernicus Sentinel-2 data. It also includes processed field data from Alston et al. (2022, DOI). The repository provides all necessary scripts to replicate the figures and statistical results from the original study. Texture measures derived from PlanetScope data can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/…

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