Abstract
The Fuzhou district in China is a rapidly changing area with a high population growth and intense land use changes. To analyze the ecological fragility and its causes in the Fuzhou district in China, the ecological fragility was divided into six severity classes based on data from field surveys. The six classes are no fragility, tiny, light, medium, awful and extreme fragility. Using remote sensing and GIS technology, the ecological fragility was assessed spatially explicit and comprehensive, using a pixel size of 30 × 30 m2. The results show that four areas in Fuzhou District are the most fragile, i.e., Pingtan, Minqing County, Changle City and Fuzhou City. The key challenge to improve or retain ecological fragility for these areas is to optimize the land cover present and coordinate the land use within the region.
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This study was supported by the Social Science Key Project of Universities in Anhui Province in China (SK2016A0995).
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Gao, Y., Zhang, H. The Study of Ecological Environment Fragility Based on Remote Sensing and GIS. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 46, 793–799 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-018-0759-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-018-0759-1