Assessing the Effectiveness of Land Restoration Interventions in Dry Lands by Multitemporal Remote Sensing - A Case Study in Ouled DLIM (Marrakech, Morocco)

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 80-91

  Zucca, Claudio ^a   Wu, Weicheng ^b   Dessena, Leonarda ^a   Mulas, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Assessment; Atriplex; Biomass; Desertification; Monitoring; Rangeland; Rehabilitation; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; LIFE CYCLE; MONITORING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

ASSESSMENT; ATRIPLEX; DESERTIFICATION; RANGELAND; VEGETATION INDEX;

BIOMASS;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX NUMMULARIA;

EID: 84921030073     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2307     Document Type: Article

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