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Present land use and cover patterns and their development potential in North Ningxia

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With the objectives to acquire the fundamental data of the territorial resource, understand the impacts of human activities on the land use and cover patterns and evaluate the potential of the future exploitation, an intensive land cover classification with an accuracy of 93% has been completed for North Ningxia by remote sensing technique based on the adoption of a combination method composed of texture training, maximum likelihood classification and post-processing such as re-allocation and aggregation. This classification result was incorporated with the contemporaneous socio-economic and meteorological data for cross-sectional regression modelling to reveal the spatial determinants of the land cover patterns and understand the human-environmental relationships. A tentative evaluation on the potential of soil exploitation in the near future was carried out in combination with our land use and cover change detection results aiming at supplying some useful references for the central and local governments in their sustainable land use planning.

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Foundation item: The Sino-Belgian co-operation project on Northwest China funded by the Federal Office for the Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC) of the Belgium Government, No.BL/10/C15

Author: Wu Weicheng (1963–), Ph.D., specialized in remote sensing, GIS and environmental geoscience.

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Wu, W., Zhang, W. Present land use and cover patterns and their development potential in North Ningxia. J. Geogr. Sci. 13, 54–62 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02873147

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