Determination of land degradation causes in Tongyu County, Northeast China via land cover change detection

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-16

  Gao, Jay ^a   Liu, Yansui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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

Author keywords

Change detection; Land degradation; Landsat TM; Northeast China; Rehabilitation of degraded land

Indexed keywords

DESERTIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAPPING; RECLAIMED LAND; SALINIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATERLOGGING;

CHINA; JILIN; TONGYU;

EID: 77958504822     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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