Agricultural Landscape & Urbanization

Qi Zhang
Last updated on Sep 2, 2024 Landscape Ecology

Project Description

During 1994-2003, the Hangzhou metropolitan region (Zhejiang, Southeastern China) has witnessed accelerated urbanization, which was characterized by increases in total population, proportion of non-agriculture population, per capita GDP, and impervious surface area.

Here, we performed multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) examine the spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural landscapes under urbanization based on Landsat satellite images.

We show that agricultural landscapes in this region were converted, fragmented, and isolated, reflected by decreased total area, increased patch density, and lengthened Euclidean nearest neighbor distance.

Land use and land cover patterns of the Hangzhou metropolitan region in 1994 and 2003 ([Zou et al. 2011](https://www.qzgeog.com/publication/c2011-zou-landscape/))
Land use and land cover patterns of the Hangzhou metropolitan region in 1994 and 2003 (Zou et al. 2011)

Period: June 2009 - May 2010
Collaborators: Dongdong Zou, Zhi Jiang, and Yuan Zhang


Funding

  • Emerging Talent Project of Zhejiang Province (PI: Qi Zhang)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (PI: Yuan Zhang)

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Authors: Qi Zhang
Updated: March 2023

agricultural landscape urbanization remote sensing GIS
Qi Zhang
Qi Zhang
Research Assistant Professor

Human-Environment Geographer