Pedosphere 7(3): 237--242, 1997
ISSN 1002-0160/CN 32-1315/P
©1997 Soil Science Society of China
Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science Press
| Application of remote sensing in study of slope land use and soil erosion in subtropic region of China |
| ZENG Zhi-Yuan and PAN Xian-Zhang |
| Institute of Soil Science, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 821, Nanjing 210008 (China) |
| ABSTRACT |
| This paper introduces briefly two remote sensing case studies on land use in the subtropic region of China. One is on slope land use in the Yangtze River Three Gorges area. This is a large area of 60497 km2. First of all, geometric correction and supervised classification were conducted for ten scenes of Landsat-5 TM or MSS images. The resolution of the processed images is 50 m × 50 m on ground. By the classification the land use/cover categories in this area were discriminated. Then the croplands including rice fields and upland fields were extracted from the land use/cover maps. Simultaneously the slope grade maps were prepared based on the topographic maps. Overlaying the slope grade maps and the cropland maps, the area and percentage of the croplands in different slope grades were determined. This case study indicated that 71.5% of the uplands was situated on the slope above 150 and 25% on the slope above 250 in this area. It is dangerous, and urgent cultivation or engineering measures should be taken. Another case study is on soil erosion in Linshan County of Guangxi Province. Airphoto interpretation and supervised classification of a Landsat TM image were carried out for discriminating land cover/use categories in an area of 3 557.8 km2. And the soil erosion intensity grades were determined according to the land cover/use maps and slope maps. It wad discovered that the land suffering soil erosion accounted for 2404.0 km2, 67.6% of the total area of the county. Necessary measures to control soil erosion should be taken also. |
| Key Words: land use, remote sensing, soil erosion, subtropic region |
| Citation: Zeng, Z. Y. and Pan, X. Z. 1997. Application of remote sensing in study of slope land use and soil erosion in subtropic region of China. Pedosphere. 7(3): 237-242. |
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