Evaluating the vegetation destruction and recovery of Wenchuan earthquake using MODIS data

Natural Hazards

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 851-862

  Liu, Yang ^a,b   Liu, Ronggao ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

MODIS; Vegetation degradation; Vegetation recovery; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND DEGRADATION; MODIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; VEGETATION;

CHINA;

EID: 77956175850     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9511-z     Document Type: Article

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