Monitoring the impact of surface coal mining on vegetation in southwestern Indiana using remote sensing and GIS

Surface coal mining leads to inevitable changes and notable impact on the physical environment of the earth and engenders immense damage to the landscape and the ecological environment. The dramatic high-speed rock digging and disturbance unavoidably causes ecosystem degradation and destruction. Det...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Wei J.
Other Authors: Yang, Jian-sheng
Format: Others
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/188445
http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1399198