Desertification Assessment in the Hodna Basin, Algeria using Desertification Degree Index and Geospatial Techniques
This study assesses desertification in the Hodna Basin, Algeria, using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) through the development of a Desertification Degree Index (DDI) based on feature-space analysis. Landsat 9 imagery was used to derive four spectral indices: the Normalized Difference Vegetation...