Assessment of land degradation and its spatial and temporal variation in Beijing surrounding area

Shuang Li; Suocheng Dong; Xiaojun Zhang; Gao Zhiqiang

doi:10.1117/12.618799

29 August 2005 Assessment of land degradation and its spatial and temporal variation in Beijing surrounding area

Shuang Li, Suocheng Dong, Xiaojun Zhang, Gao Zhiqiang

Proceedings Volume 5890, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization: Numerical Atmospheric Prediction and Environmental Monitoring; 58900K (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618799
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The indulgence in willful persecution of sandstorm had made great attention of many countries around the world. Chinese government and the Chinese academy of science going with some other countries have devoted a large amount of vigor to study the crucial environment problem. Due to the main source areas of sandstorm all located in the arid and semi-arid regions where there have great area, hard natural condition and bad traffic condition, it's very difficult to accomplish source area and the reason of sandstorm. For this destination, a international cooperation organization has been established to clarify the occur mechanism, transfer process and the following environment impact of sandstorm. The organization includes many researchers come form USA, Japan, Korea, and so on. Beijing surrounding area is one of the main sandstorm sources in recent years. In order to understand fully of the sandstorm form and development, we analyzed the land use degradation of Beijing surrounding area during the last ten years. 71 scenes Landsat TM/ETM, 611 scenes DRG and DEM data had been processed in our study. This paper made a detail describe of using Landsat image data and high resolution DEM data to construe the soil erosion and vegetation degenerate. The result shows that the irrational human activities and land use style are the main factors of land use degradation. In case of Beijing surrounding area, the land degradation directly impacted the frequency and intensity of sand & dust storm in Northern China. The case study region of Beijing surrounding area includes 51 counties that belong to three provinces and autonomous regions.

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Shuang Li, Suocheng Dong, Xiaojun Zhang, and Gao Zhiqiang "Assessment of land degradation and its spatial and temporal variation in Beijing surrounding area", Proc. SPIE 5890, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization: Numerical Atmospheric Prediction and Environmental Monitoring, 58900K (29 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.618799

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