Impacts of re-vegetation on surface soil moisture over the Chinese loess plateau based on remote sensing datasets

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Jiao, Qiao ^a   Li, Rui ^a,b   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Mu, Xingmin ^a,b   Li, Pengfei ^b   An, Chunchun ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

China; Grain for green project (GGP); Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Precipitation; Remote sensing; Soilwater index (SWI); The loess plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LANDFORMS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; VEGETATION;

CHINA; GRAIN FOR GREEN PROJECTS (GGP); LOESS PLATEAU; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOIL WATER;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84962555650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020156     Document Type: Article

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