The vegetation damage assessment of the Wenchuan earthquake of May 2008 using remote sensing and GIS

Natural Hazards

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-55

  Yang, Cunjian ^a   Ren, Xiaolan ^a   Huang, He ^a  

^a SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Damage vegetation; Remote sensing; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE MECHANICS; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ERS-2; GIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; DUJIANGYAN; SICHUAN;

EID: 84859507089     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0036-x     Document Type: Article

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