Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992–2004
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Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992--2004
The semi-arid grasslands in Inner Mongolia (IM) are under increasing stress owing to climate change and rapid socio-economic development in the recent past. We investigated changes in land cover/land use and landscape structure between 1992 and 2004 through the analysis of AVHRR and MODIS derived land cover data. The scale of analysis included the regional level (i.e. the whole of IM) as well a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045010