Quantitative Mapping and Assessment of Environmentally Sensitive Areas to Desertification in Central Iran

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 108-119

  Jafari, Reza ^a   Bakhshandehmehr, Leila ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Central Iran; Desertification; GIS; MEDALUS; UNCCD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CIRCUITS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE; MAPPING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

CENTRAL IRAN; CLIMATE INDICATORS; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS; MEDALUS; QUANTITATIVE MAPPING; UNCCD; UNITED NATION CONVENTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 84957618313     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2227     Document Type: Article

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