Correlation between annual runoff in the Heihe River to the vegetation cover in the Ejina Oasis (China)

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-41

  Jin, Xiaomei ^a,b   Schaepman, Michael ^d   Clevers, Jan ^b   Su, Zhongbo ^c   Hu, Guangcheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS); Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Remote sensing; Runoff; Water demand

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; NDVI; OASIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER DEMAND; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; EJINA OASIS; GANSU;

EID: 73149125771     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: 15324990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15324980903439297     Document Type: Article

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