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The vegetation damage assessment of the Wenchuan earthquake of May 2008 using remote sensing and GIS

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  • Cunjian Yang
  • Xiaolan Ren
  • He Huang

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The methodology for assessing the vegetation damaged by the Wenchuan earthquake by using the technologies of remote sensing and GIS was discussed in Dujiangyan city of Sichuan Province, China. The model of extracting vegetation from CBERS images was formulated using the differentiation knowledge of vegetation and non-vegetation discovered by image analysis and geographic analysis. The damage degree index (DDI) of the vegetation was defined here, which was the difference of the normalized difference vegetation index before the earthquake and that after earthquake. The China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite (CBERS)-02’s images acquired, respectively, on 6 May and 27 June 2008, the model of extracting vegetation, and DDI were used to obtain the information about the area and degree of the damage vegetation in the study. There was 87.94 square kilometers vegetation damaged by Wenchuan earthquake, which accounted for 7.9% of the total area in Dujiangyan city. The area percentage of the damage vegetation in each grade related strongly and positively to the elevation grade and slope grade and weakly related to the aspect type. The distribution characteristics of the damage vegetation were useful for making plan of restoring vegetation here. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

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  • Cunjian Yang & Xiaolan Ren & He Huang, 2012. "The vegetation damage assessment of the Wenchuan earthquake of May 2008 using remote sensing and GIS," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 62(1), pages 45-55, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:62:y:2012:i:1:p:45-55
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0036-x
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    1. Meiya Wang & Hanqiu Xu, 2018. "Remote sensing-based assessment of vegetation damage by a strong typhoon (Meranti) in Xiamen Island, China," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 93(3), pages 1231-1249, September.

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