Quantitative Assessment of Desertification Using Landsat Data on a Regional Scale – A Case Study in the Ordos Plateau, China

Desertification is a serious threat to the ecological environment and social economy in our world and there is a pressing need to develop a reasonable and reproducible method to assess it at different scales. In this paper, the Ordos Plateau in China was selected as the research region and a quantit...

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Main Authors: Jianjun Pan, Dongsheng Qiu, Xiangwu Kang, Duanyang Xu, Dafang Zhuang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2009-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/3/1738/