关键词: 土地利用变化, 尺度, 小波分析, 长株潭核心区

Abstract:

Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, the key components of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration and the core growth pole of economic development in Hunan province, have been accelerating their economic and social development and their urbanization in recent years. Their high-speed urbanization is the main reason for the significant changes in the land use structures and functions in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan core area. Therefore, research of regional land use change will exert a positive and significant influence on enhancing the harmony among land use, urban environment, economic and social development, and helping satisfy the requirements both the human living and ecological protection. Wavelet analysis, which emerged in the 1990s, is a mathematical tool for multi-scale analysis. It specializes in land use pattern analysis from frequency and scale, linking spatio-temporal pattern with scale and location. This analysis, though widely applied in ecology, has never been adopted in exploring scale characteristics of land use change in urban agglomeration. It must be a significant attempt to adopt wavelet analysis in exploring the scale characteristics of land use change in the core area of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, for its results will help to explain the spatial heterogeneity and scale sensitivity and further, the driving mechanism in regional land use change, and provide an important basis for response analysis of the scale of landscape change. The research is carried on the relationship between time and location and land use change characteristics scale from a wavelet analysis on typical transect line of the belt along the Xiangjiang River as the typical land use region based on the data of land use change extracted from the remote sensing image data in four periods from 1989 to 2008. The result shows that the different degrees of sensitivity of each quarter of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan core area to scale change determine their selection in land use characteristic scale, which is supported by 1) The quarter around the city centre, which is of a relatively single land use type, is the least sensitive to scale change, thus about 3 300 m parcel analysis being the most appropriate; 2) The urban fringe quarter is the most sensitive to scale change, thus about 2 000 m parcel analysis being the most appropriate; and 3) The green heart of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan, the combination quarter of the three cities, is moderately sensitive to scale change, thus about 3 000 m parcel analysis being the most appropriate.

Key words: land use change, scale, wavelet analysis, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan core area