Wind erosion hazard assessment of the Mongolian Plateau using FCM and GIS techniques

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 689-697

  Shi, Huading ^a   Gao, Qingxian ^a   Qi, Yongqing ^b   Liu, Jiyuan ^b   Hu, Yunfeng ^b  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means clustering; Mongolian Plateau; Wind erosion hazard

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DEGREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND SURFACE; PREDICTIVE MAPPING; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; REGIONAL SCALE; SAND STORMS; SIMILAR PATTERN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WIND ENERGY; WIND EROSIONS;

FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

WIND POWER;

ARID REGION; DUST STORM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; MAPPING METHOD; NDVI; RELIEF; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION; WIND FIELD;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 77955091343     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0381-1     Document Type: Article

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