Landscape dynamitic change in Mu Us Desert derived from landsat TM data

Issue title: Landscape change and human activity — Selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Landscape Ecology of Asia and Pasific Region, Lanzhou, China, Sept. 22–25, 2001

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Guan, Yan-ning | Guo, Shan | Xue, Yong | Li, Rui | Yang, Qin-ke

Affiliations: Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China | Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an Yangling 712100, China

Abstract: Landscape ecology emphasizes large areas and ecological effects of the spatial patterning of ecosystem. Recent developments in landscape ecology have emphasized the important relationship between spatial patterns and many ecological processes. Quantitative methods in landscape ecology link spatial patterns and ecological processes at broad spatial and temporal scales. In turn the increased attention on temporal change of ecosystem has highlighted the need for quantitative methods that can analyze patterns. This research applies quantitative methods – change detection to assess the ecosystem temporal change in the arid and semiarid area.Remote sensing offers the temporal change of ecosystem on landscape characteristics.

Keywords: landscape ecology, ecosystem change, change detection, remote sensing

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 222-226, 2003