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Hotan Oasis


GUI Dongwei1,2,3XUE Jie1,2LIU Yi1,2LI Bofei1,2LIU Chuang4
1 State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology,Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi 830011,China2 Cele National Station of Observation and Research for Desert-Grassland Ecosystems,Cele 848300,China3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China4 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China

DOI:10.3974/geodb.2020.09.13.V1

Published:Dec. 2020

Visitors:2569       Data Files Downloaded:146      
Data Downloaded:1656.26 MB      Citations:

Key Words:

Hotan,Oasis,Ho-Mo-Luo Oasis,Xinjiang,data encyclopedia

Abstract:

Hotan Oasis is the largest oasis in Hotan Administrative Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It is also known as Ho-Mo-Luo Oasis for that most of which is located in Hotan County (city), Moyu County and Luopu County. The geo-location of the Hotan Oasis is between 36°55′45″N and 37°55′11″N, 78°53′11″E and 80°32′52″E. The area of the Hotan Oasis is 4,820.94 km² based on Albers projection, and the perimeter is 2,358.08 km based on Lambert projection. The Hotan Oasis boundary data was developed based on Google earth images in 2015. The dataset is archived in .kmz and .shp data formats, which consists of 17 data files with data size of 57.1 MB (Compressed to 2 files with 22.2 MB).Browse

Foundation Item:

Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (2019FY100205); Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019)

Data Citation:

GUI Dongwei, XUE Jie, LIU Yi, LI Bofei, LIU Chuang.Hotan Oasis[J/DB/OL]. Digital Journal of Global Change Data Repository, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3974/geodb.2020.09.13.V1.

LIN Jingwu, GUI Dongwei, ZHANG Siyuan, et al. Dataset development of the Hotan Oasis, water system, watershed, and elevation [J]. Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery, 2023, 7(3): 314-320.

References:

[1] Editorial Committee of Hotan County Annals. Hotan County Annals [M]. Urumqi: Xinjiang People’s Publishing House, 2006.
     [2] Editorial Committee of Hotan City Annals. Hotan City Annals [M]. Urumqi: Xinjiang People’s Publishing House, 2006.
     [3] Editorial Committee of Luopu County Annuals. Luopu County Annals [M]. Urumqi: Xinjiang Artistic and Photography Press, 2000.
     [4] Editorial Committee of Hotan Prefecture Annals. Hotan Prefecture Annals [M]. Urumqi: Xinjiang People’s Publishing House, 2011.
     [5] Editorial Committee of Moyu County Annals. Moyu County Annals [M]. Urumqi: Xinjiang People’s Publishing House, 2008.
     

Data Product:

ID Data Name Data Size Operation
0Datapaper_HotanOasis.pdf1368.00kbDownLoad
1 HotanOasis.kmz 10304.26KB
2 HotanOasisshp.rar 12506.40KB
Co-Sponsors

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Geographical Society of China

Parteners

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

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