Abstract: AbstractThe demand for land exploitation to accommodate increasing population in metropolis is escalating worldwide. The unprecedented Mountain Excavation and City Construction project in the hilly gully Loess Plateau of China is a crustal surgery to seek the balance between urbanization and sustainability in the forerunner Yan'an city. Here, we rely on multisource remote sensing imagery to characterize the contemporary anthropogenic modification of the loess landscape. The topography has been reshaped with ±80‐m elevation changes and 1.28 ...
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Topics: 
Physical geography
Geomorphology
Mining engineering