Land use and land cover change in Inner Mongolia - understanding the effects of China's re-vegetation programs

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 204, Issue , 2018, Pages 918-930

  Yin, He ^a   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^a   Li, Ang ^b   Li, Zhengguo ^c   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Cropland retirement; Deforestation; Inner Mongolia; Land use and land cover change; Machine learning; MODIS time series; Probability scores; Random forest; Trajectory based approach

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETERS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; TRAJECTORIES; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AFFORESTATION; CROPLAND RETIREMENT; INNER MONGOLIA; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; MACHINE-LEARNING; MODIS TIME SERIES; PROBABILITY SCORE; RANDOM FORESTS; TIMES SERIES; TRAJECTORY-BASED; TRAJECTORY-BASED APPROACH;

TIME SERIES;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MACHINE LEARNING; MAPPING; MODIS; PROBABILITY; REVEGETATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 85031422162     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.030     Document Type: Article

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