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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Kassel University Press
2010-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics |
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Online Access: | http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2011052737598/125 |