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Land use change analysis in the Zhujiang Delta of China using satellite remote sensing, GIS and stochastic modelling

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 469 KB
Volume: 64
Category: Article
ISSN: 0301-4797
DOI: 10.1006/jema.2001.0509

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✦ Synopsis

Rapid land use change has taken place in many coastal regions of China such as the Zhujiang Delta over the past two decades due to accelerated industrialization and urbanization. In this paper, land use change dynamics were investigated by the combined use of satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and stochastic modelling technologies. The results indicated that there has been a notable and uneven urban growth and a tremendous loss in cropland between 1989 and 1997. The land use change process has shown no sign of becoming stable. The study demonstrates that the integration of satellite remote sensing and GIS was an effective approach for analyzing the direction, rate, and spatial pattern of land use change. The further integration of these two technologies with Markov modelling was found to be beneficial in describing and analyzing land use change process.

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