Mapping degraded grassland on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau with multi-temporal Landsat 8 data - where do the severely degraded areas occur?

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-127

  Fassnacht, Fabian Ewald ^a   Li, Li ^b   Fritz, Andreas ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grassland degradation; Landsat 8; Multiple cloud cover; SVM; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLOUD COVER; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GRASSLAND; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84943616598     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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