Land cover change in natural reserve of the Yellow River Delta, China, 1999–2008

Author

Liu, Qingsheng ; Liu, Gaohuan ; Huang, Chong

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Resources & Environ. Inf. Syst., CAS, Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

867

Lastpage

870

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to monitor the land cover change in the natural reserve of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) using Markov chain transition matrix method, especially changes of natural vegetation communities in the recent ten years. The results indicated that from 1999 to 2008, only 15.0% of Suaeda meadow, 40.0% of Chinese tamarisk shrubs, 22.2% of Reed swamp and 3.8% of Reed meadow had kept no change, and the regions in which the inverse succession happened were 2.07-fold that of progressive succession, which reflected ecological fragility of YRD, and the integration of satellite remote sensing, GIS and Markov chain transition probability matrices could provide a method for studying the dynamic succession processes of natural vegetation community.

Keywords

Markov processes; environmental monitoring (geophysics); geographic information systems; vegetation mapping; AD 1999 to 2008; China; Chinese tamarisk shrubs; GIS; Markov chain transition matrix method; Suaeda meadow; Yellow River delta; dynamic succession process; land cover change; natural reserve; natural vegetation communities; natural vegetation community; reed meadow; reed swamp; satellite remote sensing; Communities; Ecosystems; Markov processes; Rivers; Satellites; Vegetation; Vegetation mapping; Land cover change; natural vegetation community succession; the Yellow River Delta;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653644

Filename

5653644