Identifying the relationships between water quality and land cover changes in the tseng-wen reservoir watershed of Taiwan

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 478-489

  Chu, Hone Jay ^a   Liu, Chun Yu ^a   Wang, Chi Kuei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Land cover change; NDVI; Regression; Remote sensing; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

BUFFER ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NDVI; NITRATE; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HURRICANE; LAND USE; LANDSLIDE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TAIWAN; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED;

TAIWAN; TSENGWEN RESERVOIR;

EID: 84874898139     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10020478     Document Type: Article

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