Monitoring vegetation recovery after China's May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake using Landsat TM time-series data: A case study in Mao County

Ecological Research

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 955-966

  Lu, Tao ^a   Zeng, Hongcheng ^b   Luo, Yan ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Shi, Fusun ^a   Sun, Geng ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Wu, Ning ^a,c  

^a CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Landsat image; Vegetation damage; Vegetation recovery; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ARID ENVIRONMENT; DISTURBANCE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LANDSAT; MONITORING; NDVI; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; TIME SERIES;

CHINA; MAO; SICHUAN;

EID: 84866542084     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-012-0976-y     Document Type: Article

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