Toward Land Cover Quality: Challenges Linking a Land Surface Phenology Model with a State-and-Transition Model of Pasture Degradation in Central Kyrgyzstan

Geoffrey M Henebry1, Munavar Zhumanova2, Monika Tomaszewska2, Sagynbek Orunbaev3, Aliaskar Mambetov3, Keldibek Toktokozhoev4 and Zheenbek Kulenbekov3, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)American University of Central Asia, Department of Applied Geology, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, (4)Independent scholar/Pasture expert, Ak-Zhar, Kyrgyzstan