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In view of the large quantities of areas, complex landform and dynamic change of resources and environment in China, China has already funded abundantly a series of macro remote sensing investigation projects in land use/cover change(LUCC) since 1990. Supported by the achievements of such projects, Chinese resources, environmental and remote sensing database (CRERS) was created. In this paper, we standardized the LUCC dataset of CRERS at scale of 1km, which facilitated the study of spatial features of LUCC in China. The analysis on the spatial features of LUCC and their causes of formation in China are based on the CRERS supported by the technologies of Geographic Information System (GIS). The whole research was based on the grade index of land use, ecological environmental index and index of population density. Based on the correlation analysis, we found that the special features of LUCC were closely related with those of ecological environment and population density, which resulted from that areas with better ecological environment and high production potential of land were easy and convenient for human being to live, which, furthermore, led to the aggravation of excessive exploitation of land resources there.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX1-Y-02).
Biography: GAO Zhi-qiang (1966 –), male, a native of Shandong Province, Ph. D., associate professor. His research interests include data modernization and application researches of remote sensing in geography.
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Gao, Zq., Deng, Xz. Analysis on spatial features of LUCC based on remote sensing and GIS in China. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 12, 107–113 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-002-0017-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-002-0017-9