Comparative analysis of land use/cover change trajectories and their driving: Forces in two small watersheds in the western Loess Plateau of China

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 241-252

  Wang, Dongchuan ^a,b,c   Gong, Jianhua ^b   Chenc, Liding ^c   Zhang, Lihui ^a,b   Song, Yiquan ^d   Yue, Yujuan ^c  

^a TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF URBAN CONSTRUCTION   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Change trajectories; Comparative analysis; Land use cover change; Landscape metrics; Relative land use suitability index

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATERSHED;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84872773569     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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