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For a long time, global environmental change has become a focus all over the world. Environmental change not only alters the local natural landscape, but also will long impact the local or even large-scale ecosystem. While, the primary manifestation of environmental change is the land use/land cover change. In this study, taking Mentougou district in the west of Beijing for example, the temporal and...
Regional land use change has been and will continue to be one of the hugest human impacts on the environment. Based on eight remotely sensed images of Guiyang city from 1973 to 2001, this paper studies the effect of urban sprawl on the land use and land cover of Guiyang in recent three decades. The process and characteristics of urban expansion and the surrounding land use change were analyzed. Besides,...
Based on the phantom interpretation data of land TM/ETM of 1996 and that of 2006, this article analyzed the land use and land cover change of ChangBai Mountain area in the recent 10 years, and calculated the change of ecosystem service value resulted from this change. During the 10 years, LUCC of Changbai Mountain area had changed fiercely, the paddy field, the forest land and the wetland were in...
An accurate, up-to-date and spatially-explicate national land cover database is required for monitoring the status and trends of the nationpsilas terrestrial ecosystem, and for managing and conserving land resources at the national scale. With all the challenges and resources required to develop such a database, an innovative and scientifically sound planning must be in place and a partnership be...
Xishuangbanna, located in southwest China neighboring Laos and Myanmar, is a biologically diverse region that covers only 0.2% of the land area of China, yet contains 25% of all plant species in the entire country. Over the last decades, forest cover in this area has decreased dramatically from 63% to 34%. Previously, cleared lands have been largely converted into rubber plantations. The valleys have...
Rapid urbanization leads to increase in land surface temperature (LST), deterioration in environmental quality, and ultimately global warming. Northwest Arkansas is currently going through a rapid urbanization process. Urban heat island refers to the elevated nigh time temperature of urban areas with respect to the more vegetative rural areas. The objective of this study was to estimate the LST, land...
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