Scale Characteristics of Land Use Change in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Core Area Based on Wavelet Analysis
Received date: 2011-06-16
Request revised date: 2011-11-09
Online published: 2012-01-20
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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.
FU Li-hua , XIE Bing-geng , HE Yan-zi , QIU Ying-shan , ZHU Kang . Scale Characteristics of Land Use Change in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Core Area Based on Wavelet Analysis[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2012 , 32(1) : 60 -65 . DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2012.01.60
Table 1 Land use change of core area in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan in 1989-2008表1 1989~2008年长株潭核心区土地利用面积变化 |
1989~ 1996年 | 1996~ 2000年 | 2000~ 2008年 | |
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林地 (km2) | -7.658 | 13.077 | -16.951 |
草地 (km2) | 0.094 | -0.544 | 0.299 |
水域 (km2) | -0.174 | -2.238 | 1.122 |
耕地 (km2) | -0.106 | -18.290 | -39.897 |
建设用地 (km2) | 8.730 | 7.704 | 55.615 |
未利用土地 (km2) | -1.548 | 0.287 | -0.178 |
Fig. 1 Land use change and transect selection in 2000-2008图1 2000~2008年土地利用变化及样带选择 |
Fig. 2 Sketch map of transect line selection图2 小波分析样线选择 |
Fig. 3 Variance curve of the northern transect line in 1989 and 2008图3 1989、2008年样线北段小波方差变换曲线对比 |
Fig. 4 Variance curve of the middle transect line in 1989 and 2008图4 1989、2008年样线中段小波方差变换曲线对比 |
Fig. 5 Variance curve of the southern transect line in 1989 and 2008图5 1989、2008年样线南段小波方差变换曲线对比 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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