Monitoring ecological management of Three-North Shelterbelt Program: A case study in Zhongyang County, China

Author

Xiaohui Wang ; Hongbo Ju ; Yongfu Chen ; Erxue Chen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Forest Resource Inf. Tech., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

11-14 June 2014

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Three-North Shelterbelt Program (TNSP) has been implemented in China since 1978 to increase forest coverage, control soil and water loss, and improve environment. Monitoring ecological management could provide the effect of the program and form the information base upon which sound planning decisions were made. The paper monitored forest resources and soil erosion on one example of Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province in three time series using Landsat TM/MSS, GIS and the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE).

Keywords

erosion; remote sensing; vegetation; China; Landsat TM-MSS; RUSLE; Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation; Shanxi province; Three-North Shelterbelt Program; Zhongyang County; ecological management monitoring; forest coverage; forest resource monitoring; soil erosion intensity; soil loss control; water loss control; Earth; Forestry; Mathematical model; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil; China; Shanxi Province; Three-North Shelterbelt Program; Zhongyang County; monitoring ecological management; remote sensing; soil erosion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA), 2014 3rd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5757-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EORSA.2014.6927870

Filename

6927870