Land-use change and land degradation in Turkmenistan in the post-Soviet era

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-106

  Kaplan, Shai ^a   Blumberg, Dan G ^a   Mamedov, Elmar ^b   Orlovsky, Leah ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Ministry of Nature Protection   (Turkmenistan)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Change detection; Desertification; Landsat; Spectral mixture analysis; Vegetation degradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894087971     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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