Title :
Monitoring and modelling human impacts on the fragile ecosystems in arid environment of China using multi-resolution remotely sensed imagery
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Geogr., Hong Kong Baptist Univ., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
This paper reports current research that seeks to develop a practical methodology for monitoring and modelling environmental change in western China using multi-resolution remotely sensed data available for the study area. The purpose of this research is to assess the human impact on the fragile ecosystem of an arid environment by monitoring and modelling landuse and land cover change during 40-50 years
Keywords :
remote sensing; China; arid environment; fragile ecosystems; human impacts; land cover; land use; monitoring; multi-resolution remotely sensed imagery; Ecosystems; Environmental management; Geography; Humans; Productivity; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellites; Soil measurements; Vegetation mapping;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978343
