Monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of swidden agriculture and fallow vegetation recovery using Landsat imagery in northern Laos

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1218-1234

  Liao, Chenhua ^a,b   Feng, Zhiming ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Zhang, Jinghua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

fallow vegetation recovery; frequency of swidden use; Landsat; Laos; spatio temporal changes; swidden agriculture; swidden cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938631633     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-015-1229-0     Document Type: Article

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