Mapping grazing intensity using remote sensing in the Xilingol steppe region, Inner Mongolia, China

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 328-337

  Li, Fei ^a,b   Zheng, Jiajia ^c   Wang, Hao ^d   Luo, Juhua ^a   Zhao, Ying ^e   Zhao, Ruibin ^f  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

^e NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); NEURAL NETWORKS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; FREQUENCY HISTOGRAMS; GRASSLAND RESTORATIONS; INNER MONGOLIA; MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; XILINGOL;

REMOTE SENSING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOMONITORING; GRAZING; HISTOGRAM; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; STEPPE; THRESHOLD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL; XILINGOL;

EID: 84964515455     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1137987     Document Type: Article

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