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Nature 406, 121 (13 July 2000) | doi:10.1038/35018267
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Landsat reveals China's farmland reserves, but they're vanishing fast
Karen C. Seto1, Robert K. Kaufmann1 & Curtis E. Woodcock1
- Department of Geography, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 141E, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
We have compared the official estimates of agricultural land and rates of agricultural land conversion with those derived from Landsat thematic mapper satellite images for 10 counties in the Pearl River Delta, which is one of the fastest-developing regions in China. Ground- based field assessments verify the high accuracy of our techniques in estimating the area of agricultural land and its change through time1, 2.
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