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Observation of land use/cover change of the Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia, using multi-temporal Landsat images
S Chen, X Xiao, J Liu, D Zhuang
Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering | SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING | Published : 2003
DOI: 10.1117/12.465746
Abstract
The Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia, China is dominated by grassland ecosystems. Human activities (e.g., crop cultivation, livestock grazing, urban development, construction of infrastructure) in the basin have resulted in substantial changes in land cover, particularly since late 1980s. In this paper we used Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data to study the land use/cover change in the Xilin River Basin, Inner Mongolia. High-quality (less than 10% cloud cover) TM/ETM+ images (WRS124-29 and WRS124-30) acquired on four different dates (July 31,1987, August 11,1991, August 27,1997, and May 23, 2000) were collected for this study. The Xilin River Basin is..
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