Monitoring decadal lake dynamics across the Yangtze Basin downstream of Three Gorges Dam

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 251-269

  Wang, Jida ^a   Sheng, Yongwei ^a   Tong, Tak Shun D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate variation; Human activities; Lakes; MODIS; Three Gorges Dam; Yangtze Basin

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LAKES; MAPPING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODIS; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE BASIN;

RIVERS; LAKES;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOODING; FLOW REGULATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAKE DYNAMICS; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; VULNERABILITY; DROUGHT; IMPOUNDMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RESOLUTION; RIVER BASIN; WATER STORAGE;

CHINA; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 84904512143     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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