Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653644
