Present land use and cover patterns and their development potential in North Ningxia |
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| Authors: | WU Weicheng ZHANG Wenfeng |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Geography, University of Louvain, Place L. Pasteur, 3B1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium|
2. Remote Sensing Center of Ningxia, Yinchuan 750021, China |
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| Abstract: | With the objectives to acquire the fundamental data of the territorial resource, understand the impacts of human activities on the land use and cover patterns and evaluate the potential of the future exploitation, an intensive land cover classification with an accuracy of 93% has been completed for North Ningxia by remote sensing technique based on the adoption of a combination method composed of texture training, maximum likelihood classification and post-processing such as re-allocation and aggregation. This classification result was incorporated with the contemporaneous socio-economic and meteorological data for cross-sectional regression modelling to reveal the spatial determinants of the land cover patterns and understand the human-environmental relationships. A tentative evaluation on the potential of soil exploitation in the near future was carried out in combination with our land use and cover change detection results aiming at supplying some useful references for the central and local governments in their sustainable land use planning. |
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| Keywords: | land use and cover patterns human-environment relationship development potential North Ningxia cross-sectional analysis spatial determinant |
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