Monitoring and analysis of grassland desertification dynamics using Landsat images in Ningxia, China

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-26

  Li, Jinya ^a   Yang, Xiuchun ^a   Jin, Yunxiang ^a   Yang, Zhi ^b   Huang, Wenguang ^c   Zhao, Lina ^d   Gao, Tian ^a   Yu, Haida ^a   Ma, Hailong ^a   Qin, Zhihao ^a   Xu, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b Agricultural Products Quality and Safety Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture   (China)

^c Ningxia Grassland Monitoring and Supervision Center   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Grassland desertification; Grazing ban; Ningxia; Spatiotemporal analysis; Spectral mixture analysis

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND DESERTIFICATION; GRAZING BAN; NINGXIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRADING; MIXTURES; RESTORATION;

VEGETATION;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; DESERTIFICATION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STATE ROLE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; NINGXIA HUIZU;

EID: 84882658579     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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