Title :
An RS and GIS analysis on land-use / cover change in East River Valley, China
Author :
Shi, Wei ; Wu, Guoping ; He, Linyan ; Chen, Gongxun ; Jiang, Chao ; Wang, Yanrong
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Geographic & Oceanogr. Sci., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
In a society with rapid development of economy and population as today, land-use has received more attention than before. The research on it can reflect the contradiction between the regional economy development and environmental protection. East River Valley is well developed in the south of China. The article, taking East River Valley as its research area, analyzes the extent and rate of land-use and cover change (LUCC) as well as the reciprocal transformation between land types. The article also offers a further analysis on the landscape pattern of LUCC in this valley. All above are for the hope that it can show the latent discipline of the local land change in quantitative approach, and make a scientific instruction to the social and economic development in this valley.
Keywords :
ecology; geographic information systems; terrain mapping; China; East River Valley; GIS analysis; RS analysis; environmental protection; land cover change; land use; population; regional economy development; Acceleration; Buildings; Economics; Indexes; Rivers; Water pollution; Water resources; East River Valley; LUCC; landscape;
Conference_Titel :
Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-849-5
DOI :
10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5981018
