Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Changes Along the Belt and Road Initiative Region From 1982 to 2015

• Published in: IEEE Access
• Main Authors: Dong Fan, Li Ni, Xiaoguang Jiang, Shifeng Fang, Hua Wu, Xiaoping Zhang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020
• Subjects: The belt and road initiative; vegetation; variation analysis; Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering; TK1-9971; Kendall; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007073; https://doaj.org/article/bae90d2326f14f6793a1f21f766e0be8

As a key ecological zone of terrestrial ecosystem, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region has experienced a significant change of vegetation coverage in recent years. Using the GIMMS NDVI3g, this study investigated the patterns of spatiotemporal variation of vegetation coverage in the BRI region...