Deforestation and changes in landscape patterns from 1979 to 2006 in Suan County, DPR Korea

Forests

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 968-983

  Pang, Choljun ^a   Yu, Haiying ^b   He, Jun ^c,d   Xu, Jianchu ^c  

^a Ministry of Land and Environmental Protection   (South Korea)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^d YUNNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agriculture encroachment; Deforestation; DPR korea; Landscape fragmentation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DPR KOREA; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT SATELLITE IMAGES; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION; TIMBER EXTRACTION;

AGRICULTURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

DEFORESTATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEFORESTATION; FOREST CANOPY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AGRICULTURE; DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KOREA; SATELLITES;

KOREA;

EID: 84888770582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f4040968     Document Type: Article

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