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Wetland landscape pattern change based on GIS and RS: A review.

KONG Fan-ting, XI Min, LI Yue, KONG Fan-long, CHEN Wan   

  1. (College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, Shandong, China)
  • Online:2013-04-18 Published:2013-04-18

Abstract: Wetland is an ecological landscape with most biodiversity in nature, which has unique ecological structure and function, and contains abundant natural resources to provide material guarantee for human’s living and development. Wetland landscape pattern is the comprehensive result of various ecological processes, and has become a hot issue in wetland ecological study. At present, the combination of geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) technologies is an important way to study the wetland landscape pattern change. This paper reviewed the research progress in the wetland landscape change based on GIS and RS from the aspects of the research methods of wetland landscape pattern, index of wetland landscape pattern, and driving forces of wetland landscape pattern evolution, and discussed the applications of the combination of GIS and RS in monitoring the wetland landscape pattern change, the index selection of wetland landscape pattern, and the driving mechanisms of the combined action of human and nature. Some deficiencies in the current studies were put forward, and the directions of the future studies were prospected.