Evaluation on the human settlements environment suitability in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of Chongqing based on RS and GIS

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-358

  Li, Yuechen ^a,b   Liu, Chunxia ^a,b   Zhang, Hong ^a,b   Gao, Xin ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Key Laboratory of Catalysis and New Environmental Materials   (China)

Author keywords

GIS; human settlements environment suitability; RS; Three Gorges Reservoir Area of Chongqing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957460498     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-011-0849-2     Document Type: Article

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