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Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics of land use and its driving factor analysis during the period of 2000-2020 in Putian City, Fujian Province

Wu, D.·Zhang, J.·Peng, Q.·Lin, Z.·Lin, W.·Su, K.
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Exploring the spatial and temporal evolution characteristics of land use and its driving force can provide scientific basis for the construction of regional ecological civilization. Based on the remote sensing cloud computing platform of Google Earth Engine (GEE), the study took the remote sensing images of the three periods of 2000, 2010 and 2020 as the basic data and interpreted them to obtain the basic land use data of Putian city and its five districts and counties. The land-use change characteristics of Putian city in those periods were systematically analyzed by using the methods of single land-use dynamics and Geo-informatic Tupu, so as to reveal the Tupu characteristics of land-use transfer and the spatial-temporal evolution pattern in the past 20 years. Then social and economic development indicators were selected to further explore the key driving force of land-use evolution in the study area by canonical correspondence analysis. The results showed that: 1) the land use structure of Putian city was mainly composed of cultivated land and forest land, and the other land types were embedded in them and the built-up land continued to expand outward. 2) The spatial distribution of Tupu units of land use transfer in Putian city was significantly different, change types of land use were diversified and the areas of cultivated land and grassland transferred out were the most obvious. Different degrees of cultivated land abandonment had occurred in various regions. Putian city was facing great challenges in ensuring food security and curbing the non-agricultural and non grain of cultivated land. 3) The macro-economic development in a specific period, especially the urban expansion and the development of the secondary industry caused by the merger of cities and counties, were the key factors driving the spatial and temporal evolution of land use and the differential distribution pattern in Putian city. The author suggested that land resources should be used efficiently in addition to optimizing the layout of land use and carrying out the renovation of abandoned land. Therefore, the study proposed to strengthen the scientific planning and effective regulation of land use, combine spatial and temporal resources of cultivated land with agriculture, culture and tourism, and build ecological barriers and ecological corridors to ensure the coordinated and sustainable development of regional ecology and economy.

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Wu, D., Zhang, J., Peng, Q., Lin, Z., Lin, W., Su, K.. 2022-12-21. Spatial-temporal evolution characteristics of land use and its driving factor analysis during the period of 2000-2020 in Putian City, Fujian Province. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.20.521249

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