The peatland area change in past 20 years in the Zoige Basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-275

  Yao, Li ^a   Zhao, Yan ^a   Gao, Shujun ^a   Sun, Jinghui ^a   Li, Furong ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

human activity; peatland area; remote sensing; TM images; Zoige Basin

Indexed keywords

ARCGIS; CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PEATLAND; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VISUALIZATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ZOIGE PLATEAU;

EID: 80052263329     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-011-0178-x     Document Type: Article

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