Spatiotemporal analysis of ecological capacity of Li River Basin, China 1991–2013

Author

Cong Lin ; Qiming Qin ; Ruofeng Xu ; Yuan Zhang ; Jun Li

Author_Institution

Inst. of Remote Sensing & Geographic Inf. Syst., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1445

Lastpage

1448

Abstract

Different ecological and environmental information can be revealed at different scales. This method reveals the temporal and spatial patterns of the ecological capacity of the Li River Basin (LRB) at three different scales including perpixel, county and regional levels over past 20 years. Although the total ecological capacity at regional level doesn´t exhibit any sign of ecological deficit, the pixel-based results reveal that the ecological deficit concentrated in part of Guilin County, Xing´an County, Yangshuo County and the surroundings of Li River. The deficit had been expanding from these regions to their surroundings during the period of 1991 through 2013. The results offer detailed and unique information to assist with decisions and strategies associated with further regional development and ecological conservations.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; rivers; AD 1991 to 2013; CHINA; Guilin County; Li river basin; Xing´an County; Yangshuo County; county level; ecological capacity spatiotemporal analysis; ecological conservations; ecological deficit sign; ecological information; environmental information; per-pixel level; regional development; regional level; total ecological capacity; Biology; Economics; Remote sensing; Rivers; Sociology; Statistics; Sustainable development; ecological capacity; ecological carrying capacity; ecological footprint; land use classification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946708

Filename

6946708