Drought, conflict, and recovery: Disentangling the drivers of vegetation dynamics and surface temperature change in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq (2000-2024)
This study presents a 24-year spatiotemporal analysis of vegetation dynamics and land surface temperature (LST) in Kirkuk Governorate, northern Iraq, from 2000 to 2024. MODIS NDVI (MOD13Q1), MODIS LST (MOD11A2), and CHIRPS rainfall data were processed in Google Earth Engine to assess environmental change across four ph...