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The evaluation of vegetation restoration is an important part of evaluating the effectiveness of ecological restoration. The Loess Plateau is an area where ecological problems are concentrated, and it is a key area of ecological construction in China. This paper takes the Loess Plateau as the research area, using remote sensing and geographic information technology combined with ecosystem structural changes and an improved residual model to study vegetation restoration. The following main conclusions were drawn: (1) From 1990 to 2000, the farmland area increased by 3084.81 km2, resulting in the encroachment of a large area of grassland and shrubland. (2) With the implementation of ecological engineering, the area of returning farmland to forest and grassland reached 18,001.88 km2; in this period, the NDVI of vegetation increased rapidly, and the area that increased comprised 91.90% of the total area, of which the area of significant increase reached 65.78%. The quality of vegetation was restored to a great extent, and ecological engineering played a major role in this stage. (3) Under the background of large-scale implementation of ecological restoration, the urban area of the Loess Plateau continues to expand.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13081407","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,7]],"date-time":"2021-04-07T03:52:03Z","timestamp":1617767523000},"page":"1407","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Effect of Ecological Construction Engineering on Vegetation Restoration: A Case Study of the Loess Plateau"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0154-2640","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lina","family":"Xiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaojun","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]},{"given":"Mengdie","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Natural Resources Survey and Registration Center of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310012, China"}]},{"given":"Changzhen","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"258","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecoleng.2016.10.030","article-title":"Quantifying changes in multiple ecosystem services during 2000\u20132012 on the Loess Plateau, China, as a result of climate variability and ecological restoration","volume":"97","author":"Jiang","year":"2016","journal-title":"Ecol. 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