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Since Tibet plateau environment shows fragile characteristics, it has important significance for disclosing the evolution mechanism of Tibetan eco-environment under condition of global climate changes by applying remote sensing and GIS to monitoring Tibet landuse characteristics. TM and CBERS images are applied to landuse interpretation of Tibet on the platform of Erdas software in this study. And then Tibet landuse spatial database is established on the platform of ArcGIS software. And the spatial distribution characteristics of Tibet landuse are analyzed based on Landscape Ecology theory. The results show that: (1) the dominant landscape of Tibet are unutilized land and grassland respectively occupied 38.42% and 37.22% of whole Tibetan area; (2) farmland, woodland, grassland, water area, urban land and unutilized land show characteristics of typical regionality in spatial distribution; (3) The patches of urban land and farmland are simple and regular, while the patches of unutilized land and grassland are relatively complex and concentrative in spatial distribution; (4) in spite of high correlation between landscape indexes, they have different meanings in disclosing the landscape functions actually, which should not be neglected.
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Xu, X., Tao, H. (2012). Research on Landscape Characteristics of Tibet Landuse. In: Deng, W. (eds) Future Control and Automation. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31006-5_2
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