Use of multi-temporal Landsat images for analyzing forest transition in relation to socioeconomic factors and the environment

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-476

  Shi, Zhi Hua ^a,b   Li, Lu ^b   Yin, Wei ^c   Ai, Lei ^b   Fang, Nu Fang ^b   Song, Yan Tun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Yangtze River Water Resource Protection Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

(NMDS); China; Environmental conditions; Forest transition; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Remote sensing (RS); Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 79955620776     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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