Spatial distribution and driving mechanism of land degradation in Xinjiang based on RS and spatial regression model

Land degradation is an important environmental problem, it will become a threat to food security and the sustainable development of socio-economic systems, ultimately affecting the development of humans with global warming. Xinjiang is a key region in China, in which land degradation is very serious. Combed RS with GIS technology, based on the latest remote sensing data, analyzed the spatial distribution pattern of land degradation in the provincial region of 85 counties in Xingjiang, applied spatial regression model to analyze the relationships between land degradation and influencing factors, formulated the main influencing factors. Land degradation in Xinjiang is from north to south and west to east, with a gradually increasing trend. Severe land degradation is found mainly in the Xinjiang region in the eastern. the main factors of land degradation are vegetation coverage, annual average rainfall, and land reclamation rate with regression coefficients of 381.967, -512.008 and -865.043, respectively.