Using remote sensing to assess impacts of land management policies in the Ordos rangelands in China

International Journal of Digital Earth

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 81-102

  Wu, Weicheng ^a   De Pauw, Eddy ^a   Zucca, Claudio ^b  

^a International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

human intervention; land use cover change; multi temporal remote sensing; NDVI trajectory; spatial variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMICS; LAND USE; METEOROLOGY; SPACE OPTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VEGETATION DEGRADATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND MANAGEMENT; NDVI; RANGELAND; REMOTE SENSING;

CHINA; ORDOS;

EID: 84890790228     PISSN: 17538947     EISSN: 17538955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2013.825656     Document Type: Article

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