Urban Green Corridors Analysis for a Rapid Urbanization City Exemplified in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Outline of Study Area and Data Description
2.2. Preprocessing Method for Land Use and Land Cover Datasets
2.3. Methodology for Morphological Spatial Patterns Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Changes of Morphological Spatial Patterns of Green Infrastructure in Gaoyou from 1990 to 2016
3.1.1. Morphological Spatial Patterns of Green Infrastructure for 1990 in Gaoyou City
3.1.2. Morphological Spatial Patterns of Green Infrastructure for 2000 in Gaoyou City
3.1.3. Morphological Spatial Patterns of Green Infrastructure for 2016 in Gaoyou City
3.2. The Morphological Spatial Patterns of Gaoyou City from 1990 to 2016
4. Discussion
4.1. Ecological Connectivity Assessment for Gaoyou City
4.2. Urban Expansion vs. Green Corridor Conservation
4.3. The Relationships between the Ecological Connectivity and Urban Expansion in Gaoyou
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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LULC Classes | Definitions | GI Elements | Input Classes for MSPA |
---|---|---|---|
Urban built up | Pixels, where the majority (>50%) of pixels within the Walking Distance Circle (1 km2) are built up | None | Background |
Suburban built up | Pixels, where 25–50% of pixels within the Walking Distance Circle (1 km2) are built-up | None | Background |
Rural built up | Pixels, where <25% of pixels within the Walking Distance Circle (1 km2) are built-up. | None | Background |
Urbanized open land | all open space pixels within 100 m of urban and suburban built-up pixels | Forests, agricultural crops, fallow agricultural fields, wetlands, grass lands, desert lands, parks, etc. | Foreground |
Captured open land | open space pixels, clusters of open space pixels that completely surrounded by fringe open space pixels less than 200 hectares in area | Forests, agricultural crops, fallow agricultural fields, wetlands, grass lands, etc. | Foreground |
Rural open land | all open space pixels that were neither fringe nor captured | Agricultural lands, grasslands, rivers and other open spaces in the rural areas. | Foreground |
Water | All Landsat pixels that were comprised of surface water | Surface water include oceans, lakes, ponds, reservoirs, rivers, streams, canals, pools, and flooded, wetlands, etc. | Foreground |
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Wang, H.; Pei, Z. Urban Green Corridors Analysis for a Rapid Urbanization City Exemplified in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu. Forests 2020, 11, 1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121374
Wang H, Pei Z. Urban Green Corridors Analysis for a Rapid Urbanization City Exemplified in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu. Forests. 2020; 11(12):1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121374
Chicago/Turabian StyleWang, Hefei, and Zong** Pei. 2020. "Urban Green Corridors Analysis for a Rapid Urbanization City Exemplified in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu" Forests 11, no. 12: 1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121374