Notice of RetractionStudy on the spatial evolution of rural landscape in urban fringe areas—A case in Zengcheng

Notice of Retraction

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The paper adopts the method of Supervised Classification to classify the remote sensing images of rural landscape in four phases of 1979, 1990, 2000 and 2006 in Zengcheng. With the assistant of Geographical Information System, it analyzes the dynamic changing of the rural landscape, sums up the characteristic of the spatial evolvement of rural landscape, and estimates the spatial difference in Zengcheng. At last, points out many problems includes the building land grow excessive; the farm land decrease current; the environment damage heavily; and the rural development lack plan and manage availably.