Dynamic Analysis of Urban Landscape Patterns of Vegetation Coverage Based on Multi-temporal Landsat Dataset
Dynamic monitoring of vegetation coverage changes, especially on a relatively large temporal scale, have important practical significance in urban planning and environmental protection. The objective of this study is to dynamically investigate the urban l
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Abstract. Dynamic monitoring of vegetation coverage changes, especially on a relatively large temporal scale, have important practical significance in urban planning and environmental protection. The objective of this study is to dynamically investigate the urban landscape patterns of vegetation coverage based on remote sensing techniques. Multi-temporal Landsat images of 1990, 2000 and 2013 were firstly used to produce three vegetation coverage maps of Hefei City, Anhui Province, China with five grades using the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) dimidiate pixel model. Subsequently, a total of eight landscape pattern indictors in FRAGSTATS 4.2 were selected to analyze the dynamic characteristics of area, quantity and density for the study area with different vegetation coverage grades. The results showed that (1) the dominant vegetation coverage of 1990, 2000 and 2013 were the high vegetation coverage, the moderate vegetation coverage and the moderate-to-high vegetation coverage, respectively. The acreage of non-vegetation coverage increased by 1.89 %, while the high vegetation coverage decreased by 10.48 % from 1990 to 2013; (2) the quantity and density of patches decreased by 33.42 % and 33.41 % during 1990–2013. Shannon’s diversity index and Shannon’s evenness index increased from 0.92 in 1990 to 0.97 in 2000, and then declined to 0.96 in 2013; and (3) the contagion index had an upward trend and conversely the aggregation index showed no significant changes, but both of them were close to 1 during 1990–2013. In comparison with natural influences, the primary driving forces causing the changes were ascribed to human factors including the rapid population growth and fast-growing urban areas. Keywords: Landscape pattern Vegetation coverage vegetation index (NDVI) Landsat Remote sensing
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© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016 Published by Springer International Publishing AG 2016. All Rights Reserved D. Li and Z. Li (Eds.): CCTA 2015, Part I, IFIP AICT 478, pp. 300–316, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48357-3_30
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1 Introduction Vegetation is a general term that describes the phytocoenosium covering the land, which not only provides large amount of material resources (e.g., vegetation products and vegetation by-product), but also helps in maintaining soil and water, conserving water, fixing sand, purifying air, regulating climate and so on. Furthermore, it plays an important role in maintaining the ecological balance and promoting regional sustainable development [1–3]. With the continuous improvement of socio-economics, the built-up areas gradually expanded, and spatial regions are becoming more concentrated due to human activities, especially in urban areas. Consequently, quantitative monitoring of the spatio-temporal changes of urban vegetation cover has attracted more attention in urban planning and environmental protection [4, 5]. In traditional vegetation monitoring, statistical methods with lower upd
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