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Using Landsat data to determine land use changes in Datong basin, China

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The aim of this study was to determine land use changes in Datong basin using multitemporal Landsat data for the period of 1977–2006. Four dates of Landsat images from 1977, 1990, 2000, and 2006 were selected to classify the study area. Based on the supervised classification method of maximum likelihood algorithm, images were classified into six classes: water, urban, forest, agriculture, wetland, and barren land. A multidate postclassification comparison change detection algorithm was used to determine changes in land use in four intervals. It is found that (1) urban land area increased 213% due to urbanization that resulted from rapid increase of urban population and high-speed economic development, (2) agriculture area increased 34.0% due to land reclamation that resulted from rapid increase of rural population and improvement of irrigation capacity, (3) forest area decreased 20.9% due to deforestation for urban area and agricultural use, (4) barren land area decreased 78.2% due to cultivation for agricultural use, and (5) water and wetland decreased 39.1 and 67.1%, respectively, due to exploitation of surface water and decrease of recharge from groundwater to surface water that resulted from over exploitation of groundwater.

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This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-40425001 and NSFC-40702042), Ministry of Education of PR China (111 project) and Research Foundation for Outstanding Young Teachers, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (CUGQNL0714).

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    Ziyong Sun, Rui Ma & Yanxin Wang

  2. Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA

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Sun, Z., Ma, R. & Wang, Y. Using Landsat data to determine land use changes in Datong basin, China. Environ Geol 57, 1825–1837 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-008-1470-2

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