Spatial pattern of land cover change in China's semiarid environment

Journal of Arid Land

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-25

  Li, Baolin ^a   Zhou, QiMing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Change detection; Human activities; Land cover; Remote sensing; Semiarid zone of china; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 80155200543     PISSN: 16746767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1227.00016     Document Type: Article

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