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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2011, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (12): 3358-3364.

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Ecosystem services evaluation based on geographic information system and remote sensing technology: A review.

LI Wen-jie1,2, ZHANG Shi-huang1, WANG Hui-min1   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2Graduate University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Online:2011-12-18 Published:2011-12-18

Abstract: Ecosystem services evaluation is a hot topic in current ecosystem management, and has a close link with human beings welfare. This paper summarized the research progress on the evaluation of ecosystem services based on geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) technology, which could be reduced to the following three characters,i.e.,  ecological economics theory is widely applied as a key method in quantifying ecosystem services, GIS and RS technology play a key role in multi-source data acquisition, spatiotemporal analysis, and integrated platform, and ecosystem mechanism model becomes a powerful tool for understanding the relationships between natural phenomena and human activities. Aiming at the present research status and its inadequacies, this paper put forward an “Assembly Line” framework, which was a distributed one with scalable characteristics, and discussed the future development trend of the integration research on ecosystem services evaluation based on GIS and RS technologies.