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This study presents a method for detecting changes in land and soil cover of the southern Aralkum using high-temporal-resolution time series satellite data. The results demonstrate that the MODIS time series classification is a valuable tool to produce accurate landscape classification, landscape change maps and statistics for large areas as the Aralkum. A significant proportion of the emerged soil remained devoid of dense vegetation and became a salt desert. Only a small part of the salt desert in the study area, near the former Amu Darya’s mouth, was converted to shrubland and reeds between 2000 and 2008. Monitoring land cover condition and analysing land cover change in the Aralkum is of great importance, since the ecological situation is still very dynamic and large parts of the landscape in the Aralkum are unstable.
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Löw, F., Navratil, P., Bubenzer, O. (2012). Landscape Dynamics in the Southern Aralkum: Using MODIS Time Series for Land Cover Change Analysis. In: Breckle, SW., Wucherer, W., Dimeyeva, L., Ogar, N. (eds) Aralkum - a Man-Made Desert. Ecological Studies, vol 218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21117-1_6
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