Land use change and analysis of environment impact of the buffer zone around Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province

Author

Si-si, Xiao ; Xian-jin, Huang

Author_Institution

Sch. of the Environ., Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

4137

Lastpage

4140

Abstract

By interpretation of TM images respectively in 1990, 2000 and 2005, the map of current land use of the 5 km buffer zone around Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province was compiled. Through overlaying, spatial analysis and statistic analysis supported by ArcGIS 9.2 software, the map of land use change rule and land cover in this area were showed, and the environmental impacts caused by the change of land use types were analyzed. It was shown that the change could bring a series of environmental issues, such as watershed soil erosion, industrial waste and pollutants flowing into the lake increase.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysical image processing; lakes; terrain mapping; AD 1990; AD 2000; AD 2005; ArcGIS 9.2 software; China; Jiangsu Province; TM images; Taihu Lake; buffer zone; image interpretation; industrial waste; land use change; spatial analysis; statistical analysis; watershed soil erosion; Biological system modeling; Educational institutions; Geographic Information Systems; Lakes; Rivers; Soil; Water conservation; Jiangsu Province; Taihu lake; buffer zone; environmental status; integrated pollution index; land use change;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9172-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RSETE.2011.5965158

Filename

5965158