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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2012, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (2): 43-50.

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Landscape pattern analysis of alpine steppe based on airborne hyperspectral imagery in Maduo county, Qinghai province

JIAO Quan-jun1,2, ZHANG Bing1, ZHAO Jing-jing1,2, LIU Liang-yun1,2, HU Yong1,2,3   

  1. 1.Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China;
    2.Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China;
    3.College of Geomatics, Xi’an University of Science & Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
  • Received:2010-12-29 Online:2012-02-25 Published:2012-04-20

Abstract: Landscape ecology has been widely used in grassland resource management and in ecological security evaluation. A multi-scale analysis of landscape statistics is very important for correlation with ecological processes. Acquiring features of landscape patterns from different grassland types with various fractional vegetation cover is one type of basic work in landscape scale analysis of grassland degradation. Extraction of small-scale landscape patterns from high resolution remote sensing is a useful attempt to carry out landscape-scale analysis. The present study analyzed different spectral characteristics of different grassland types and took precision grassland types mapping based on airborne high spatial resolution hyperspectral PIS imagery in Maduo county, Qinghai province. Metre-resolution landscape pattern differences in alpine steppe study areas with different fractional vegetation cover were explored through three landscape indices (landscape heterogeneity, landscape fragmentation and landscape dominance level). The results showed that landscape heterogeneity index and landscape dominance index are closely related to the level of fractional vegetation cover in alpine grassland. However, with reduced fractional vegetation cover of alpine steppe sample areas, fragmentation index initially decreased but then increased.

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