Characterizing changes in grassland desertification based on Landsat images of the Ongniud and Naiman Banners, Inner Mongolia

doi:10.1080/01431161.2015.1029596

	Characterizing changes in grassland desertification based on Landsat images of the Ongniud and Naiman Banners, Inner Mongolia
	Li, Jinya 1; Xu, Bin 1; Yang, Xiuchun 1; Jin, Yunxiang 1; Zhao, Lina 2; Zhao, Fen 1; Chen, Shi 1; Guo, Jian 1; Qin, Zhihao 1; Ma, Hailong 1
	2015
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
ISSN	0143-1161
卷号	36 期号:19-20 页码:5137-5149
摘要	Desertification is treated as an important and critical environmental hazard. In the face of increasingly serious grassland desertification, China has made great efforts to combat desertification and a series of key national ecological projects has been launched. However, accurate, timely, and effective monitoring and assessment are required to determine whether these projects work well. The Horqin sandy land represents the largest area of sandy land in China. In this article, the Naiman and Ongniud Banners were studied because these contain the main desertified grassland in Horqin. Next, a desertification classification and grading system was designed for the Horqin sandy land after conducting fieldwork. Based on spectral mixture analysis (SMA) and decision-tree methods, we interpreted Landsat Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus/Operational Land Imager (TM/ETM+/OLI) images of the study area from four years: 1985, 1992, 2001, and 2013. Overall, the following results were obtained. The total area of desertified grassland in the Naiman and Ongniud Banners increased from 5979km(2) in 1985 to 9195km(2) in 1992 (an increase of 53.79%) and then decreased to 7828km(2) in 2001 and to 6023km(2) in 2013. The changes in the areas of desertified grassland with various degrees of desertification displayed the same trends as that of the total desertified grassland area. The severely desertified grassland expanded from 1872km(2) in 1985 to 3723km(2) in 1992 before shrinking to 2189km(2) in 2013. The annual rates of expansion of desertified grassland during the periods 1985-1992, 1992-2001, and 2001-2013 were 7.68%, -1.65%, and -1.92%, respectively, and the corresponding expansion rates of severely desertified grassland were 14.12%, -3.48%, and -1.19%, respectively. Both the desertified grasslands and the areas with various degrees of desertification displayed significant expansion during the period 1985-1992. Since 1992, this trend has reduced. During the study period, the changes in temperature and precipitation did not benefit the reversal of grassland sandy desertification. Furthermore, the growing population and expansion of livestock production and farming inhibited such reversal. However, the results presented in this article suggest that a reversal in grassland sandy desertification has been occurring since 1992. The results indicate that ecological engineering measures have helped reverse desertification and have promoted the restoration of grassland vegetation.
学科领域	Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
DOI	10.1080/01431161.2015.1029596
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS ; INDICATORS ; DYNAMICS ; SCIENCE ; NINGXIA ; COUNTY
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) ; Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
WOS记录号	WOS:000364334500023
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Special Issue	SI
文献子类	Article; Proceedings Paper
出版地	ABINGDON
EISSN	1366-5901
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC] [31372354] ; International Science and Technology Cooperation Programme of China [2013DFR30760] ; Grassland Monitoring and Supervision Centre, Ministry of Agriculture of China [425-1] ; Center of Supervision Management of Grassland, Ministry of Agriculture of China
作者邮箱	xubin@caas.cn
引用统计	被引频次：7[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/25829
专题	系统与进化植物学国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Ecoenvironm Sci Res Ctr, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Agr Resources & Reg Planning, Key Lab Agri Informat, Minist Agr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Jinya,Xu, Bin,Yang, Xiuchun,et al. Characterizing changes in grassland desertification based on Landsat images of the Ongniud and Naiman Banners, Inner Mongolia[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING,2015,36(19-20):5137-5149.
APA	Li, Jinya.,Xu, Bin.,Yang, Xiuchun.,Jin, Yunxiang.,Zhao, Lina.,...&Ma, Hailong.(2015).Characterizing changes in grassland desertification based on Landsat images of the Ongniud and Naiman Banners, Inner Mongolia.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING,36(19-20),5137-5149.
MLA	Li, Jinya,et al."Characterizing changes in grassland desertification based on Landsat images of the Ongniud and Naiman Banners, Inner Mongolia".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING 36.19-20(2015):5137-5149.

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