Geographical characteristics of China’s wetlands derived from remotely sensed data

• 作 者: ZhenGuo Niu (1) Peng Gong (
• 机 构: 1.StateKeyLaboratoryofRemoteSensingScience,2.SchoolofGeography
• 出 处: 中国科学：地球科学英文版
• 发表日期: 2009年6期
• 关键词: China WETLANDS REMOTE SENSING WETLAND MAPPING China wetlands remote sensing wetl
• 基金项目: National High-Tech Research and Development Plan (Grant No. 2006AA12Z112),the National Science & Technology Pillar Program (Grant No. 2006BAJ10B02)

In this paper, we report the first wetland mapping of the entire China using Landsat enhanced thematic mapper plus (ETM+) data. These data were obtained from the Global Land Cover Facility at the University of Maryland spanning from 1999 to 2002. A total