Monitoring earthquake-damaged vegetation after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in the mountainous river basins, Dujiangyan County

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6808-6827

  Zhang, Huaizhen ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiaomeng ^b,c   Fan, Jianrong ^a   Chi, Tianhe ^b   Yang, Shun ^d   Peng, Ling ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Center for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology Survey Chinese Geological Survey   (China)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Hydrological connectivity; Remote sensing; Vegetation recovery

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RECOVERY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SLOPE STABILITY; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; CONNECTIVITY INDICES; COUPLING RELATIONSHIPS; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES; HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84933575460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70606808     Document Type: Article

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