Notice of RetractionAnalysis of Landscape Pattern in Urbanization Based on RS: A Case Study of Xi´an-Xianyang Region, China

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Urbanization has significant effects in densely populated China. The increasing extant of urban built-up areas and the associated land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) are among major factors in considerations for resource and environmental management, in particular in ecologically fragile regions such as the western China. To better understand the urbanization process and landscape pattern change of the Xi´an-Xianyang region, we documented land cover changes between 1988, 1995, and 2006 using Landsat remote sensing data, revealed the landscape pattern change between the two cities. The research indicates that LULCC between the three time periods involved major transitions of land from agriculture to urban classes and agriculture landscape replaced by urban landscape.