Assessment of aeolian desertification trends from 1975's to 2005's in the watershed of the Longyangxia Reservoir in the upper reaches of China's Yellow River

Geomorphology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 205-211

  Yan, C Z ^a   Song, X ^a   Zhou, Y M ^b   Duan, H C ^a   Li, S ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian desertification; Remote sensing; Trend analysis; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESERTIFICATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDFORM; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 69749109758     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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