Spatiotemporal Variations of Land Use Change in Recent Four Decades in a Typical Oasis City--Urumqi

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10.2991/iccte-17.2017.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

LUCC, Arid Land, Urumqi, Spatiotemporal Pattern, Land-use transition matrix.

Abstract

Urumqi is a typical oasis city in western China. A clear understanding of Urumqi's LUCC (Land-Use and Land-Cover Change) pattern has important guiding significance to environmental improvement and socio-economic sustainable development. This paper analyzed the spatiotemporal variations of LUCC in Urumqi from 1980 to 2015 base on LUCC dataset. The results showed that the LUCC of Urumqi changed drastically from 1980 to 2015, in which the grasslands area continued to decrease and mainly converted to urban built-up lands and croplands. The area of urban and built-up lands in Urumqi had been increased nearly three times, the downtown mainly expanded towards the northward direction. The water bodies' area of Chaihuobpu Lake in the southern mountainous decreased significantly from 2010 to 2015.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Bin Liu
AU  - Qingdong Shi
AU  - Jia Jin
PY  - 2017/07
DA  - 2017/07
TI  - Spatiotemporal Variations of Land Use Change in Recent Four Decades in a Typical Oasis City--Urumqi
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Civil, Transportation and Environmental Engineering (ICCTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 583
EP  - 587
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccte-17.2017.103
DO  - 10.2991/iccte-17.2017.103
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