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Review on China’s Spatially-Explicit Historical Land Cover Datasets and Reconstruction Methods

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Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

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This chapter dedicates to the evolution of research hotspots and datasets on historical farmland reconstruction in China and abroad. Based on the statistical analysis and literature review, related studies are analyzed by research paradigms, assumptions, working methods and model validation. From the perspective of methodology, there are two main types, i.e. a top-down method based on historical records and a bottom-up reconstruction method based on geographic spatial model. For model validation, direct verification of reconstruction pattern is obviously a more precise method, but it is often restricted to the spatial-temporal scales of research and data source; indirect validation method provides a new idea for accuracy evaluation of the reconstruction results.

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    According to the search Protocol of WOS (Web of Science), search condition was set as follows: (land use SAME reconstruct*) OR (land use SAME rebuild*) OR (land use SAME reestablish*) OR (land cover SAME reconstruct*) OR (land cover SAME rebuild*) OR (land cover SAME reestablish*) AND (history*).

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  1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Xiaobin Jin

  2. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Yinkang Zhou

  3. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Xuhong Yang

  4. School of History and Archives, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

    Yinong Cheng

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Jin, X., Zhou, Y., Yang, X., Cheng, Y. (2018). Review on China’s Spatially-Explicit Historical Land Cover Datasets and Reconstruction Methods. In: Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71879-8_2

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