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Space expression of industry status using GIS and SWOT analysis

Take the planning area in Lu’an as an example

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On the basis of sufficient understanding about the general situation of the Lu’an planning area, Anhui Province, this paper uses strengths weakness opportunity threats (SWOT) analysis to analyze the internal and external factors of the development of the planning area itself; then it analyzes the industrial cluster situation in the planning area, and uses GIS space analysis to analyze the industry status of the planning area, integrating it with the geographic space expression to provide references for formulating the economic development program of the Lu’an planning area.

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41101407); the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2014CFB377, 2010CDZ005)

Biography: WANG Hongchen, Associate professor, research direction: remote sensing, geographic inforamtion system, editing science.

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Wang, H., Li, C. & Zheng, Y. Space expression of industry status using GIS and SWOT analysis. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 20, 445–454 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-015-1117-6

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