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OBIA-Based Extraction of Artificial Terrace Damages in the Loess Plateau of China from UAV Photogrammetry

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Terraces, which are typical artificial landforms found around world, are of great importance for agricultural production and soil and water conservation.
Xuan Fang, Jincheng Li, Ying Zhu, Jianjun Cao, Jiaming Na, Sheng Jiang, Hu Ding   +6 more
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Study on Ecosystem Structure and Function of Longji Terrace [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Longji Terrace, one of the three ancient terraces in China, is a comprehensive tourist scenic spot with agricultural terraces as the main body and integrating natural landscape, cultural landscape and ethnic customs.
Zhu Xuelian, Xu Delan, Wang Kaijie
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The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant—Past Perspectives and Future Implications

Land, 2022
Terrace farming installations occupy vast desert areas in the Southern Levant. Their construction in harsh environments raises critical questions focusing on the natural, political, and economic circumstances promoting their construction and operation ...
Yoav Avni
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Is Cultivated Land Increased by Land Consolidation Sustainably Used in Mountainous Areas?

Land, 2022
Land consolidation (LC) in China is an important means by which we can increase the quantity and improve the quality of cultivated land. At present, large areas of cultivated land are abandoned in mountainous areas.
Jian Zhou, Chao Li, Xiaotong Chu, Chenying Luo   +3 more
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Soil organic carbon stabilization mechanisms and temperature sensitivity in old terraced soils [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2021
Being the most common human-created landforms, terrace construction has resulted in an extensive perturbation of the land surface. However, our mechanistic understanding of soil organic carbon (SOC) (de-)stabilization mechanisms and the persistence of ...
P. Zhao, D. J. Fallu, S. Cucchiaro, S. Cucchiaro, P. Tarolli, C. Waddington, D. Cockcroft, L. Snape, A. Lang, S. Doetterl, A. G. Brown, A. G. Brown, K. Van Oost   +12 more
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Evaluation of Three Different Machine Learning Methods for Object-Based Artificial Terrace Mapping—A Case Study of the Loess Plateau, China

Remote Sensing, 2021
Artificial terraces are of great importance for agricultural production and soil and water conservation. Automatic high-accuracy mapping of artificial terraces is the basis of monitoring and related studies.
Hu Ding, Jiaming Na, Shangjing Jiang, Jie Zhu, Kai Liu, Yingchun Fu, Fayuan Li   +6 more
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Climate projections for the City of Terrace [PDF]

, 2022
Terrace has already begun to feel the effects of climate change. The unprecedented heat dome event of 2021 is just one example that illustrates climate change is happening, and having an impact all around the city and across the region.
Pinna Sustainability, City of Terrace, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)   +2 more
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Extent of Adoption of House terrace Cultivation of Urban dwellers of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, Kerala

Journal of Extension Education, 2018
This paper assesses the adoption of recommended practices for house terrace cultivation in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation of Kerala by the urban dwellers.
Greeshma Udayan, Sreedaya Gopinathan Sarojini amma   +1 more
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Identification and Delineation of Broad-Base Agricultural Terraces in Flat Landscapes in Northeastern Oklahoma, USA

Land, 2023
Broad-base agricultural terraces can be difficult to delineate in flat landscapes, particularly when covered by crops, due to subtle changes in elevation over relatively wide distances.
Hans Edwin Winzeler, Phillip R. Owens, Tulsi Kharel, Amanda Ashworth, Zamir Libohova   +4 more
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A 30 m terrace mapping in China using Landsat 8 imagery and digital elevation model based on the Google Earth Engine [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2021
The construction of terraces is a key soil conservation practice on agricultural land in China providing multiple valuable ecosystem services. Accurate spatial information on terraces is needed for both management and research.
B. Cao, L. Yu, L. Yu, V. Naipal, P. Ciais, W. Li, W. Li, Y. Zhao, Y. Zhao, W. Wei, D. Chen, Z. Liu, P. Gong, P. Gong   +13 more
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