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Remarkable Ecological Restoration Due to Integrated Socio-Economic Policies in the Loess Plateau

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Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem ( 2015, GRMSE 2015)

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Remarkable changes of vegetation cover in the Loess Plateau occurred in the latest 20 years. Land use/land cover (LULC) data of 1985, 1999 and 2009 were collected based on Landsat MSS, TM and MODIS remote sensing data. Results show that the widely implemented ecological restoration policies obtained a great success, achieving remarkable vegetation recovery and soil conservation in the Loess Plateau.

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This study has been founded by the IWHR research projects (JZ0145B042015) and “948” projects (JZ0124A012014).

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  1. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Fuxing Road. A-1, Beijing, 100038, China

    Wenlong Song, Jingxuan Lu, Zhiguo Pang, Xuefeng Wang, Wei Qu, June Fu, Yizhu Lu, Yanan Tan & Jingyi Han

  2. Research Center on Flood and Drought Reduction of the Ministry of Water Resources, Fuxing Road. A-1, Beijing, 100038, China

    Wenlong Song, Jingxuan Lu, Zhiguo Pang, Wei Qu, June Fu & Yizhu Lu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by Beijing Normal University and the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100875, People’s Republic of China

    Wenlong Song & Shengtian Yang

  4. Yellow River Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, Zhengzhou, 450004, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoyan Liu

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Song, W. et al. (2016). Remarkable Ecological Restoration Due to Integrated Socio-Economic Policies in the Loess Plateau. In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2015 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49155-3_100

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