Open AccessLong-term influence of anthropogenic activities in the coastal ecosystems in China
Author(s) -
Lixia Chu,
Francis Oloo,
Thomas Blaschke
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/509/1/012009
Subject(s) - land reclamation , ecosystem , environmental science , coastal zone , environmental resource management , land use , work (physics) , term (time) , marine ecosystem , vegetation (pathology) , china , geography , ecology , mechanical engineering , medicine , physics , archaeology , pathology , quantum mechanics , engineering , biology
In China, human activities like reclamation have increased at the unprecedented speed in the coastal areas in the last few decades. These activities can support economic development and also can reduce the benefits that could be accrued from the coastal ecosystems. Assessing and monitoring of the human-induced changes in the coastal areas requires efficient and multi-variate analysis of long-term earth observation data from different sources. In this research, we quantify the potential linkage between anthropogenic footprints and coastal vegetation change and also with changes in land surface temperature. The computation is implemented in Google Earth Engine (GEE), and the results from this work highlight the potential hot and cold spots of human-induced degradation of coastal ecosystems.