Spatial targeting of land rehabilitation: A relational analysis of cropland productivity decline in arid Uzbekistan;Zusammenfassung: Bewässerte anbauflächen in zentralasien zeigen eine starke anfälligkeit für bodendegradation

Erdkunde

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 167-181

  Dubovyk, Olena ^a   Menz, Gunter ^a   Conrad, Christopher ^a   Lamers, John P A ^b   Lee, Alexander ^c   Khamzina, Asia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Khorezm Rural Advisory Support Service (KRASS)   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Land degradation; Land restoration; MODIS NDVI; Population pressure; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ARID REGION; LAND DEGRADATION; MODIS; NDVI; POPULATION DENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL QUALITY;

CENTRAL ASIA; UZBEKISTAN;

EID: 84879722555     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2013.02.05     Document Type: Article

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