FOREST COVER CHANGE ANALYSIS IN INNER MONGOLIA USING REMOTE SENSING DATA

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Xie, S.^1¹ 

[1] School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China^1

关键词: Forest cover change;    Remote sensing data;    Inner Mongolia;    Land use and land cover data;   

DOI  :  10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1951-2018

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Copernicus Publications

【 摘 要 】

Forest is the lung of the earth, and it has important effect on maintaining the ecological balance of the whole earth. This study was conducted in Inner Mongolia during the year 1990–2015. Land use and land cover data were used to obtain forest cover change of Inner Mongolia. In addition, protected area data, road data, ASTER GDEM data were combined with forest cover change data to analyze the relationship between them. Moreover, patch density and landscape shape index were calculated to analyze forest change in perspective of landscape aspect. The results indicated that forest area increased overall during the study period. However, a few cities still had a phenomenon of reduced forest area. Results also demonstrated that the construction of protected area had positive effect on protecting forest while roads may disturbed forest due to human activities. In addition, forest patches in most of cities of Inner Mongolia tended to be larger and less fragmented. This paper reflected forest change in Inner Mongolia objectively, which is helpful for policy making by government.

【 授权许可】

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