Title :
Importance assessment of biological diversity maintenance in Chengde city
Author :
Gao, Weiya ; Qian, Jinping ; Cui, Lichang
Author_Institution :
The College of Resources and Environmental Science, Hebei Normal University, Hebei Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Ecological Construction, The College of Resources and Environmental Science, China
Abstract :
Based on actual situation of biological diversity and by assessment methods and criteria of biological diversity maintenance set up by the state government, applying remote sensing and geographic information system technology, the importance of biological diversity maintenance in Chengde city has been evaluated. According to the results of assessment, the important areas in Chengde city are divided into four levels, i.e. extremely, medium, comparatively and general important, and the distribution of the areas is defined. This conclusion has presented scientific basis for biological diversity maintain protection work in Chengde.
Keywords :
Biodiversity; Cities and towns; Ecosystems; Indexes; Maintenance engineering; Vegetation mapping; Chengde City; biological diversity; ecosystem; importance assessment;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9172-8
DOI :
10.1109/RSETE.2011.5965732
