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Sensors 2009, 9, 1738-1753; doi:10.3390/ OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Quantitative Assessment of Desertification Using Landsat Data on a Regional Scale – A Case Study in the Ordos Plateau, China Duanyang Xu 1, 3, Xiangwu Kang 2 , Dongsheng Qiu 3 , Dafang Zhuang 1, 3,* and Jianjun Pan 1 1 Collage of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China; E-Mails: duanyang_xu@126.com (D.X.); jpan@ (J.P.) 2 Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing 100038, P.R. China; E-Mail: kangxw@ (X.K.) 3 State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P.R. China; E-Mail: qiuds@ (D.Q.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: zhuangdf@; Tel.: +86-10 Received: 2 December 2008, in revised version: 4 February 2009 / Accepted: 6 March 2009 / Published: 12 March 2009 Abstract: Desertification is a serious threat to the ecological environment and social economy in our world and there is a pressing need to develop a reasonable and reproducible method to assess it at different scales. In this paper, the Ordos Plateau in China was selected as the research region and a quantitative method for desertification assessment was developed by using Landsat MSS and TM/ETM+ data on a regional