Urban expansion and its impact on the land use pattern in Xishuangbanna since the reform and opening up of China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Cao, Hui ^a,b,c   Liu, Jian ^b   Fu, Chao ^a,b   Zhang, Wanfeng ^d   Wang, Guizhou ^e   Yang, Guang ^e   Luo, Lei ^e  

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

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Landscape metrics; Radar graph; The reform and opening up; Urban expansion; Urban rural gradients

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; RADAR; RUBBER; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; RURAL AREAS; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINESE GOVERNMENT; LAND FRAGMENTATIONS; LANDSCAPE DIVERSITY; LANDSCAPE METRICS; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; THE REFORM AND OPENING UP; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN-RURAL GRADIENTS;

LAND USE;

EID: 85013627599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020137     Document Type: Article

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