GIS-Based Assessment of Land Suitability for Optimal Allocation in the Qinling Mountains, China1 1 Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2006CB400505) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40171007).

Pedosphere

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 579-586

  LIU, Yan Sui ^a   WANG, Jie Yong ^a,b   GUO, Li Ying ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GIS; landforms; optimal allocation; Qinling Mountains; suitability evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ARABLE LAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND TYPE; LAND USE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

EID: 33748920229     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(06)60091-X     Document Type: Article

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