An attempt to characterize the changes in grasslands as agricultural resources in Mongolia

HIRANO, Akira

平野, 聡

[ABSTRACT]Grasslands are an important land use and land cover in Mongolia. It is particularly unique that more than 99 per cent of Mongolia's agricultural area is grasslands. Changes in this vast agricultural area have implications not only for the country's economic future prospect but also for impact on regional environment. The use of satellite based 8-km vegetation index time-series dataset over 20 years (1981-2000] signaled potentially contrasting spatial patterns before and after 1990 when the country moved from planned economy to market economy. The concentration of declining vegetation activity in the north-central region particularly after 1990 appeared to coincide with the distribution of croplands and the areas of increasing livestock density.

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/104361/

https://opac.ll.chiba-u.jp/da/curator/104361/BB01446232-15-P025.pdf

Chiba University. Center for Environmental Remote Sensing

千葉大学環境リモートセンシング研究センター

会議発表用資料

BB01446232

Proceedings of the CEReS international symposium = CEReS国際シンポジウム資料集

15

25

32

2009-12-15

publisher

環境リモートセンシング研究センター「CEReSシンポジウム資料集」