An evaluation approach for snow disasters in the pastoral areas of northern xinjiang, PR China

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 369-380

  Tiangang, Liang ^a   Xingyuan, Liu ^a   Caixia, Wu ^a   Zhenggang, Guo ^a   Xiaodong, Huang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Remote sensing; Snow disaster evaluation; Snow hazard index

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVHRR; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INDEX METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; PASTORALISM; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOWSTORM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XINJIANG UYGUR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 35848931195     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288230709510305     Document Type: Article

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