NDVI indicated characteristics of vegetation cover change in China's metropolises over the last three decades

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Sun, Jinyu ^a   Wang, Xuhui ^a   Chen, Anping ^b   Ma, Yuecun ^a   Cui, Mengdi ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China's cities; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Urbanization; Vegetation cover change

Indexed keywords

CHINA'S CITIES; EAST CHINA; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PEARL RIVER DELTA; POLICY-ORIENTED; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; TURNING POINTS; URBAN AREAS; URBAN VEGETATION; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION COVER CHANGE; WEST CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

RIVERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

VEGETATION;

METROPOLITAN AREA; NDVI; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS; POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; YANGTZE DELTA; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 79960415100     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-010-1715-x     Document Type: Article

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