Quantitative analysis and simulation of land use changes in the Pearl River Delta, China

Honghui Zhang; Yongnian Zeng; Bin Zou; Pengfeng Xiao; Deyong Hu; Jianchao Peng

doi:10.1117/12.761303

26 July 2007 Quantitative analysis and simulation of land use changes in the Pearl River Delta, China

Honghui Zhang, Yongnian Zeng, Bin Zou, Pengfeng Xiao, Deyong Hu, Jianchao Peng

Proceedings Volume 6752, Geoinformatics 2007: Remotely Sensed Data and Information; 675236 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761303
Event: Geoinformatics 2007, 2007, Nanjing, China

Abstract

This paper analyzes and simulates the land use changes in the Pearl River Delta, China, using Longgang City as a case study. The region has pioneered the nation in economic development and urbanization process. Tremendous land use changes have been witnessed since the economic reform in 1978. Land use changes are analyzed and simulated by using stochastic cellular automata model, land use trajectories analysis, spatial indices and multi-temporal TM images of Longgang City (TM1987, TM1991, TM1995, TM1999, TM2003, TM2005) in order to understand how urbanization has transformed the non-urban land to urban land and estimate the consequent environment and ecological impacts in this region. The analysis and simulation results show that urban land continues to sprawl along road and fringe of towns, and concomitant to this development is the loss of agricultural land, orchards and fish ponds. This study provides new evidence with spatial details about the uneven land development in the Pearl River Delta.

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Honghui Zhang, Yongnian Zeng, Bin Zou, Pengfeng Xiao, Deyong Hu, and Jianchao Peng "Quantitative analysis and simulation of land use changes in the Pearl River Delta, China", Proc. SPIE 6752, Geoinformatics 2007: Remotely Sensed Data and Information, 675236 (26 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761303

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