Identifying desert thresholds by mapping inverse erodibility and recovery potentials in patch patterns using spectral and morphological algorithms

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-338

  Shoshany, M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climatic gradient; Desert thresholds; Mathematical morphology; Patch patterns; Remote sensing; Spectral mixing

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LINES; CLIMATIC GRADIENT; DEAD SEA; DESERT THRESHOLDS; ERODIBILITY; LANDSAT TM DATA; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY ALGORITHMS; PATCH PATTERNS; PATTERN INFORMATION; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SEMI ARID; SPECTRAL MIXING; SURFACE CONDITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ARID REGIONS; EROSION; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MIXING; RECOVERY; REMOTE SENSING;

PHOTOMAPPING;

ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; EROSION; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OVERGRAZING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84864919443     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2146     Document Type: Article

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