Modeling the electricity consumption by combining land use types and landscape patterns with nighttime light imagery

Energy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 121305
Author(s):  
Jiaxin Wang ◽  
Feng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Electricity Consumption ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Nighttime Light ◽  
Nighttime Light Imagery

scholarly journals Changes of Ecosystem Services and Landscape Patterns in Mountainous Areas: A Case Study in the Mentougou District in Beijing

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3689
Author(s):  
Yang Yi ◽  
Mingchang Shi ◽  
Chunjiang Liu ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Hongzhang Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Vegetation Coverage ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Use Types

Land use types have been strongly modified across mountainous areas. This has substantially altered the patterns and processes of ecosystems and the components of ecosystem services (ESs), and could in turn impact the sustainable development. In the mountainous Mentougou district of Beijing, we explored the changes in land use type (cropland, orchard, forested land, scrubland, grassland, bare land, water bodies, wasteland and built-up land), landscape patterns and ESs as well as their interactions during the past 30 years (1985–2014). The ESs included water yield (WY), carbon stocks (CS) and soil retention rate (SR). The results showed that 23.65% of the land use changed and the wasteland decreased by 80.87%. As for ESs, WY decreased by 47.32% since the year 2000, probably due to the increases in temperature and evapotranspiration. Although the decrease of forested land led to the decrease of CS, the increase of vegetation coverage improved SR. CS decreased by 0.99%from 1990 to 2014, and SR increased by 1.38% from 1985 to 2014. Landscape patterns became fragmented and dispersed, and MPS and CS, SHDI and SR were significantly negatively correlated. IJI and CS was positively correlated. This indicated that landscape patterns were highly correlated with ESs. In order to maintain the sustainable development of ESs, we should not only plan land use types, but also consider the rationality of landscape patterns.

scholarly journals Landscape-Ecological Approach to Spatial Planning as a Tool to Minimize Socio-Ecological Conflicts: Case Study of Agrolandscape in the Taiga Zone of Russia

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Alexander Khoroshev
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Landscape Heterogeneity ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Taiga Zone ◽  
Space Images ◽  
Geochemical Environment ◽  
Land Use Types

Landscape heterogeneity generates significant influences on economic activity. Present-day publications in landscape planning focus more and more on a participatory approach and a communication process. By contrast, we focus on nature-based criteria aimed at proper adaptation of planning decisions to natural landscape patterns. The paper proposes the framework aimed at considering geographical context, matter flows, and dynamic processes in projecting ecological network and perfect sites for various land use types as well as for choosing appropriate technologies. We use the example of a river basin in the taiga zone of European Russia, partially used for forestry and traditional agriculture. A landscape map, space images, and geochemical data are used to provide rationales for the necessary emergent effects resulting from proper proportions, neighborhoods, buffers, and shapes for lands use units. The proposed spatial arrangement of land use types and technologies ensures the coordination of socio-economic and ecological interests and preserves zonal background conditions, including runoff, soils, migration routes, and biodiversity. The allocation of arable lands and cutovers is aimed at minimizing undesirable matter flows that could cause qualitative changes in the geochemical environment.

scholarly journals Developing Non-Negative Spatial Autoregressive Models for Better Exploring Relation Between Nighttime Light Images and Land Use Types

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 798
Author(s):  
Honghan Zheng ◽  
Zhipeng Gui ◽  
Huayi Wu ◽  
Aihong Song
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Spatial Autocorrelation ◽  
Autoregressive Models ◽  
Spatial Error ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Central Pixel ◽  
Nighttime Light ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive ◽  
Spatial Autoregressive Models ◽  
The Relationship

Exploring the relationship between nighttime light and land use is of great significance to understanding human nighttime activities and studying socioeconomic phenomena. Models have been studied to explain the relationships, but the existing studies seldom consider the spatial autocorrelation of night light data, which leads to large regression residuals and an inaccurate regression correlation between night light and land use. In this paper, two non-negative spatial autoregressive models are proposed for the spatial lag model and spatial error model, respectively, which use a spatial adjacency matrix to calculate the spatial autocorrelation effect of light in adjacent pixels on the central pixel. The application scenarios of the two models were analyzed, and the contribution of various land use types to nighttime light in different study areas are further discussed. Experiments in Berlin, Massachusetts and Shenzhen showed that the proposed methods have better correlations with the reference data compared with the non-negative least-squares method, better reflecting the luminous situation of different land use types at night. Furthermore, the proposed model and the obtained relationship between nighttime light and land use types can be utilized for other applications of nighttime light images in the population, GDP and carbon emissions for better exploring the relationship between nighttime remote sensing brightness and socioeconomic activities.

scholarly journals Adjacent terrestrial landscapes impact the biogeographical pattern of soil Escherichia coli in produce fields by modifying the importance of environmental selection and dispersal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingqiu Liao ◽  
Peter Bergholz ◽  
Martin Wiedmann
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Land Use ◽  
New York State ◽  
Enteric Bacteria ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Biogeographic Pattern ◽  
Environmental Selection ◽  
Forest Sites ◽  
Land Use Types

ABSTRACTHigh-quality habitats for wildlife (e.g., forest) provide essential ecosystem services while increasing species diversity and habitat connectivity. Unfortunately, presence of such habitats adjacent to produce fields may increase risk for contamination of fruits and vegetables by enteric bacteria, including Escherichia coli. E. coli survives in extra-host environments (e.g., soil) and could disperse across landscapes by wildlife. Understanding how terrestrial landscapes impact the distribution of soil E. coli is of importance in assessing the contamination risk of agricultural products. Here, using multi-locus sequence typing, we characterized 938 E. coli soil isolates collected from two watersheds with different landscape patterns in New York state, USA, and compared the distribution of E. coli and the influence of two ecological forces (environmental selection and dispersal) on the distribution between these two watersheds. Results showed that for the watershed with widespread produce fields, sparse forests, and limited interaction between the two land-use types, E. coli composition was significantly different between produce field sites and forest sites; this distribution was shaped by relatively strong environmental selection likely from soil phosphorus and slight dispersal limitation. For the watershed with more forested areas and stronger interaction between produce field sites and forest sites, E. coli composition between these two land-use types was relatively homogeneous; this distribution appeared to a consequence of wildlife-driven dispersal, inferred by competing models. Collectively, our results suggest that terrestrial landscape attributes could impact the biogeographic pattern of enteric bacteria by adjusting the importance of environmental selection and dispersal.IMPORTANCEUnderstanding the ecology of enteric bacteria in extra-host environments is important to allow for development and implementation of strategies to minimize pre-harvest contamination of produce with enteric pathogens. Our findings suggest that watershed landscape is an important factor influencing the importance of ecological drivers and dispersal patterns of E. coli. For watersheds with widespread produce fields, E. coli appears to experience local adaptation, possibly due to exposure to environmental stresses associated with agricultural activities. In contrast, for watersheds with high forest coverage we found evidence for wildlife-driven dispersal of E. coli, which might facilitate more frequent genetic exchange in this environment. Agricultural areas in such watersheds may have a higher risk of produce contamination due to less environmental constraints and higher potential of dispersal of enteric bacteria between locations. The significance of our research lies in exploring ecological principles underlying the biogeographic pattern of enteric bacteria at the regional level, which can inform agricultural, environmental and public health scientists that aim to reduce the risk of food contamination by enteric bacteria.

scholarly journals Quantifying Ecological Performance of Giant Panda Conservation: Evidence from Sichuan Province

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1701
Author(s):  
Zhenjiang Song ◽  
Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Giant Panda ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Ailuropoda Melanoleuca ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Conservation Projects

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a symbolic and flagship species in the field of endangered wildlife conservation. We studied the changing and driving factors of landscape patterns in Sichuan giant panda habitats through image interpretation and ecological niche evaluation models. According to land-use and cover-change analysis, we also studied the structural changes in habitat over the past two decades and used empirical analysis to evaluate the relative ecological niche widths and overlap of giant panda distribution areas in 1995 and 2015. It is found the area of non-forested land decreased significantly from 1995 to 2015. It is interesting that the high-quality land-use types tended to decrease but low/middle-quality land-use types tended to increase over the past 20 years. Giant panda conservation projects in China have promoted changes in conservation thought and management, as well as the innovation of technical means over the studied period. The goals of Chinese giant panda conservation projects are not only to facilitate giant panda reproduction but also to alleviate the contradiction between conservation and development and promote the coexistence of humans and giant pandas.

scholarly journals On Landscape Patterns in Typical Mountainous Counties Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4000
Author(s):  
Yang Yi ◽  
Mingchang Shi ◽  
Chunjiang Liu ◽  
Hongzhang Kang ◽  
Bin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Patch Size ◽  
Natural Circulation ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Human Disturbances ◽  
Zonal Distribution ◽  
Land Use Types

The landscape patterns of plantations (PT) are the results of human disturbances on local vegetation, and in turn, differ greatly from natural forests (NF), since the patterns strongly influence the natural circulation of material and energy. There is a need to understand the differences of landscape patterns between PT and NF, to establish a near natural afforestation strategy. This study chose three typical silvicultural counties in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River as the research areas and compared the landscape patterns of NF and PT, with other land use types (grassland, GL; cropland, CL; shrubland, SL; orchard, OR; built-up land, BUL; bare land, BL; and water bodies, WB). The results revealed that the areas of PT accounted for 7.67%, 12.05%, and 18.97% of three counties, bigger than GL, OC, BUL, BL, and WB, as one of main land use types. The landscape patterns of PT (mean patch size between 2.06 to 6.05 ha) were more fragmented than NF (mean patch size between 5.83 to 53.91 ha). NF areas increased along the relative altitude gradient, from 0 to 2500 m, while PT areas peaked from 100–1000 m. The higher the altitude, the more typical the zonal distribution of PT, the more aggregated the NF. NF had significant negative correlations with BL, BUL, CL, PT, GL, and OC, which suggest that human activities had seriously interfered with NF. Although PT as an ecological protection strategy was increasing, the landscape patterns of PT were obviously different from NF. This may affect the material energy flow in the ecological environment. The results in the present study have great implications in the other regions in China and the relevant parts of the world where natural forests were heavily disturbed.

LAND USE TYPES AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICTS: A CASE STUDY IN HUONG VINH COMMUNE, HUONG TRA TOWN, THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE

2017 ◽  
Vol 126 (4B) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trần Thanh Đức
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sweet Potato ◽  
Soil Analysis ◽  
Soil Characteristics ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Clay Loam ◽  
Total N ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Total P

This research carried out in Huong Vinh commune, Huong Tra town, Thua Thien Hue province aimed to identify types of land use and soil characteristics. Results showed that five crops are found in Huong Vinh commune including rice, peanut, sweet potato, cassava and vegetable. There are two major soil orders with four soil suborders classified by FAO in Huong Vinh commune including Fluvisols (Dystric Fluvisols<em>, </em>Gleyic Fluvisols and Cambic Fluvisols) and Arenosols (Haplic Arenosols). The results from soil analysis showed that three soil suborders including Dystric Fluvisols<em>, </em>Gleyic Fluvisols and Cambic Fluvisols belonging to Fluvisols were clay loam in texture, low pH, low in OC, total N, total P<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> and total K<sub>2</sub>O. Meanwhile, the Haplic Arenosols was loamy sand in texture, poor capacity to hold OC, total N, total P<sub>2</sub>O<sub>5</sub> and total K<sub>2</sub>O

THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT URBAN LAND USE TYPES ON AIR POLLUTION IN THE MEGACITY OF SÃO PAULO

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Júlio Barboza Chiquetto ◽  
Maria Elisa Siqueira Silva ◽  
Rita Yuri Ynoue ◽  
Flávia Noronha Dutra Ribieiro ◽  
Débora Souza Alvim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
The Impact

A poluição do ar é influenciada por fatores naturais e antropogênicos. Quatro pontos de monitoramento (veicular, comercial, residencial e background urbano (BGU))da poluição do ar em São Paulo foram avaliados durante 16 anos, revelando diferenças significativas devidoao uso do solo em todas as escalas temporais. Na escala diurna, as concentrações de poluentes primários são duas vezes mais altas nos pontos veicular e residencial do que no ponto BGU, onde a concentração de ozonio (O3) é 50% mais alta. Na escala sazonal, as concentrações de monóxido de carbono(CO) variaram em 80% devido ao uso do solo, e 55% pela sazonalidade.As variações sazonais ede uso do solo exercem impactos similares nas concentrações de O3 e monóxido de nitrogênio (NO). Para o material particulado grosso (MP10) e o dióxido de nitrogênio(NO2), as variações sazonais são mais intensas do que as por uso do solo. Na série temporal de 16 anos, o ponto BGU apresentou correlações mais fortes e significativas entre a média mensal de ondas longas (ROL) e o O3 (0,48) e o MP10 (0,37), comparadas ao ponto veicular (0,33 e 0,22, respectivamente). Estes resultados confirmam que o uso do solo urbano tem um papel significativo na concentração de poluentes em todas as escalas de análise, embora a sua influência se torne menos pronunciada em escalas maiores, conforme a qualidade do ar transita de um sistema antropogênico para um sistema natural. Isto poderá auxiliar decisões sobre políticas públicas em megacidades envolvendo a modificação do uso do solo.

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