Evaluation of desert management and rehabilitation by petroleum mulch base on temporal spectral analysis and field study (case study: Ahvaz, Iran)

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-74

  Hashemimanesh, Mirmusa ^a   Matinfar, Hamidreza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Anti desertification; Change detection; Remote sensing, Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ANTI-DESERTIFICATION; ARID LANDS; AUXILIARY DATA; CHANGE DETECTION; CROP GROWTH; DESERT AREA; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FIELD STUDIES; LANDSAT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATIONS; MOISTURE STORAGE; POSITIVE CHANGES; POST CLASSIFICATION; SAND DUNES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS;

AFFORESTATION; ARID REGION; CROP; DESERT; DESERTIFICATION; DETECTION METHOD; DISSOLUTION; DUNE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; FIELDWORK; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MULCH; PETROLEUM; RECLAIMED LAND; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WIND BREAK;

AHWAZ; IRAN; KHUZESTAN;

EID: 84864033400     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.04.038     Document Type: Article

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