Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Region A C
This book presents the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use and land cover in the central Tibetan Plateau during the last two decades, based on various types of satellite data, long-term field investigation and GIS techniques. Further, it demonstrate
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Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Region A Comprehensive Study at the Central Tibetan Plateau
Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Region
Duo Chu
Remote Sensing of Land Use and Land Cover in Mountain Region A Comprehensive Study at the Central Tibetan Plateau
Duo Chu Tibet Institute of Plateau Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Tibet Meteorological Bureau Lhasa, China
ISBN 978-981-13-7579-8 ISBN 978-981-13-7580-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7580-4
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Preface
Mountains cover about one fourth of the Earth’s land surface and are home to over one tenth of the global population, providing the essential ecosystem services and playing the role of water towers to billions of people living in downstream. Meanwhile, mountain regions are most vulnerable and sensitive to environmental change and global warming, offering a unique opportunity to monitor and study these change processes and consequences. The Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest plateau on the Earth and well known as “the roof of the world,” is a massive mountainous region on the Eurasian continent and covers over 2.5 millions of square kilometers, with an average elevation of over 4000 meters above sea level. Land use and land cover is one of the important environmental aspects of the plateau. However, our understanding of land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) and their dynamic processes on the plateau is very limited compared to the plateau uplifting and its profound dynamic and thermal forcing on the Asian monsoon system. Therefore, in this publication, base
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