Assessment of land use and land cover changes during the last 50 years in oases and surrounding rangelands of Xinjiang, NW China

An analysis of historical Corona images, Landsat images, recent radar and Google Earth® images was conducted to determine land use and land cover changes of oases settlements and surrounding rangelands at the fringe of the Altay Mountains from 1964 to 2008. For the Landsat datasets supervised classi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Katja Brinkmann, Andreas Buerkert, Andreas Dittrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kassel University Press 2010-10-01
Series:Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
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MLC
Online Access:http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2011052737598/125