Changes in vegetation condition in areas with different gradients (1980-2010) on the Loess Plateau, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2427-2438

  Zhang, Baoqing ^a,b   Wu, Pute ^a,b   Zhao, Xining ^a,b   Wang, Yubao ^a,b   Gao, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center of Water Saving and Irrigation Technology   (China)

Author keywords

"Grain For Green" project; Geographic information system; Land use; NDVI; Slope steepness; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA HANDLING; FARMS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTS;

DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; FOREST AND GRASSLAND; GRAIN FOR GREEN PROJECTS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; SLOPE STEEPNESS; TRANSFORMATION MATRICES; VEGETATION RESTORATION;

VEGETATION;

DECADAL VARIATION; GIS; LAND USE CHANGE; NDVI; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; GIS; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84875463514     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1927-1     Document Type: Article

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