Spatial Characterisation of Vegetation Diversity in Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems Using In-Situ and Sentinel-2 MSI Satellite Data
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript was clearly improvd and the authors deserve the recognition. It needs a total reconstruction in my opinion. I do not get these comparisons among indexes that in my opinion are meaningless and quite unnecessary since index descriptions are widely available in literature. They should remove it and keep just the best (they would cut around 25 references in this procedure) to continue the paper as it is, OR propose a method based on Sentinel images to detect spectral variations (then they should test and choose the best index). I recognize the author's efforts to improve the manuscript but sometimes we can not improve what is already not good.
Author Response
I do not get these comparisons among indexes that in my opinion are meaningless and quite unnecessary since index descriptions are widely available in literature. They should remove it and keep just the best (they would cut around 25 references in this procedure) to continue the paper as it is, OR propose a method based on Sentinel images to detect spectral variations (then they should test and choose the best index). I recognize the author's efforts to improve the manuscript but sometimes we can not improve what is already not good.
The inclusion of the other indices as well as the least performing regression algorithms was done to exhibit the scientific rigor of the work done. In addition, we also sought to provide a comparative basis with other indices that have been used when testing the SVH in different environments.
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors addressed all my previous comments from the first version of the manuscript, which was already in a good shape, properly. I do not have any further comments. Congratulations to the authors for this nice job.
Author Response
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There were no further comments from reviewer 2. We would like to that the reviewer for improving the manuscript |
Reviewer 3 Report
This paper proposed the Spatial characterization of vegetation diversity of groundwater dependent ecosystems using Sentinel-2 MSI imagery.
I think Table 1 is not necessary: the presented index are already available in the literature.
There are two figures 1!
The introduction section should be summarized
Figure 1 ( The conceptual interaction of groundwater and vegetation diversity in arid environments)should be moved into the study area sub-section or deleted.
The manuscript should be checked by a native speaker.
Author Response
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I think Table 1 is not necessary: the presented index are already available in the literature. |
Based on the reviewers comments, we removed table 1 with the indices and the indices used in this study were simply mentioned and relevant sources have been cited. |
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There are two figures 1! |
Pg 14, Ln 400. The text was corrected and we removed the redundant text. |
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The introduction section should be summarized |
The introduction was revisited. We removed redundant parts. We assume the revised introduction now reads better. |
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Figure 1 (The conceptual interaction of groundwater and vegetation diversity in arid environments)should be moved into the study area sub-section or deleted. |
The figure was moved to the methods section as suggested by the reviewer. |
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The manuscript should be checked by a native speaker. |
The authors took time to correct and check the manuscript for English checks as suggested by the reviewer. |
