The research on environmental change alongside the Ming Great Wall in Ningxia and Shanxi Province by remote sensing

Author

Zhu, Lanwei ; Guo, Huadong ; Wang, Changlin

Author_Institution

Inst. of Remote Sensing of Applic., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

June 30 2008-July 2 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The land degradation alongside the Great Wall made in Ming dynasty is always the one of problems concerned by government and scientists, but all of the researches about it are focused on the whole environmental change alongside the Ming Great Wall, while they are not considered the Ming Great Wallpsilas role in the process of the environmental change. So in this paper, we will further reveal the process of the environmental change alongside the Ming Great Wall based on Landsat TM/ETM remote sensing image. Finally we found some new phenomena of the environmental change alongside the Ming Great Wall including function of the Ming Great Wall in impacting on surrounding environment.

Keywords

archaeology; environmental factors; remote sensing; Landsat TM/ETM image; Ming Great Wall; Ming dynasty; Ningxia Province; Shanxi Province; environmental change; land degradation; remote sensing; Acceleration; Degradation; Earth; Geoscience; Government; Protection; Remote sensing; Satellites; Three dimensional displays; Vegetation mapping; archaeology; environmental change; remote sensing; the Great Wall;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications, 2008. EORSA 2008. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2393-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2394-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EORSA.2008.4620352

Filename

4620352