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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2015.35.4.1007

Afforestation Effect Analysis Using MODIS Imagery: Yulin, Shaanxi, China As a Case Study  

Jang, Hyo-Seon (Yonsei University)
Kim, Sang-Pil (Yonsei University)
Kim, Mi-Kyeong (Yonsei University)
Sohn, Hong-Gyoo (Yonsei University)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.35, no.4, 2015 , pp. 1007-1013 More about this Journal
Abstract
Desertification in China, one of the source regions of yellow dust, has been worsen by industrialization and extreme land development, which increases the damage caused by yellow dust in Korea. Because the yellow dust from China affects not only their own country, but also neighboring countries, it is becoming an international problem, and China has been started afforestation projects to prevent excessive desertification with the help of the international community. However, it is only possible for identifying the results of afforestation projects to check afforestation result reports from National Bureau of Statistics of China, which makes it difficult to check out tangible results. Therefore, this study was conducted by using remote sensing technique for monitoring afforestation status of Yulin, shaanxi, China. in which an afforestation project has been carried out steadily. MODIS imagery was used as remote sensing data and it was confirmed that vegetation has been increased through vegetation indices from 2000 to 2014 and afforestation areas were estimated as same trend of ground reference data.
Keywords
MODIS; NDVI; VR; Afforestation; Desertification; China;
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