This project was made in the context of the Earth Observation exam, evaluated by dr. Daniele Oxoli and pr. Giovanna Venuti.

A study of the stress response of vegetation to drought situation through multispectral satellite imagery. Case of study of Como lake, summer 2022.

In the summer of 2022, the subalpine Italian forests suffered from high drought conditions. The scope of the analysis is to compare multispectral response of vegetation data between 2022 and 2021 (this former as model year) using multi-spectral indexes. NDVI will be computed and compared between the 2 years. Usually higher NDVI values are associated to healthier vegetation, but contradicting results will lead to the validation of a second hypothesis, that plants can react to a drought event by increasing their chlorophyll content.