Title :
Urbanization and its impact on environmental quality in Shanghai
Author :
Cui, Linli ; Shi, Jun ; Chen, Zhao
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Center for Satellite Remote Sensing & Applic., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
The processes and characteristics of urbanization in Shanghai, focusing on the land use and land cover (LULC) change, and its impacts on local environmental quality were analyzed based on the historical land use data, meteorological station data, social statistical data and vegetation NDVI data. With rapid urban sprawl, a large amount of cultivated lands has been replaced with building lands around urban areas and towns of Shanghai. Urbanization has resulted in the increase of air temperature, precipitation, hot days and rainstorm days, and the decrease of vegetation NDVI in Shanghai. Urbanization has also placed a heavy burden on the urban atmosphere and water quality and environmental sanitation.
Keywords :
air pollution; town and country planning; vegetation; water pollution; water quality; LULC change; Shanghai; cultivated lands; environmental quality; environmental sanitation; historical land use data; land cover; local environmental quality; meteorological station data; rapid urban sprawl; social statistical data; urban atmosphere; urbanization characteristics; urbanization processes; vegetation NDVI data; water quality; Buildings; Cities and towns; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Sociology; Statistics; Urban areas; Shanghai; Urbanization; environmental quality; impact; land use and land cover (LULC);
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352060
