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15 Citations
3,236 Views
18 Pages

Research Progress in Spatiotemporal Dynamic Simulation of LUCC

  • Wenhao Wan,
  • Yongzhong Tian,
  • Jinglian Tian,
  • Chengxi Yuan,
  • Yan Cao and
  • Kangning Liu

18 September 2024

Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) represents the interaction between human societies and the natural environment. Studies of LUCC simulation allow for the analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) patterns in a given region. Moreover, these stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,966 Views
21 Pages

Multiple land use and land cover (LUC) datasets are available for the analysis of LUC changes (LUCC) in distinct territories. Sometimes, different LUCC results are produced to characterize these changes for the same territory and the same period. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
713 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2026

This study is based on time-series land use data of Xinjiang from 2000 to 2022. Using grid tools, bivariate autocorrelation models and other methods, we systematically analyzed the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of land use and ecosystem se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers on Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
9,993 Views
20 Pages

Downscaling the Impacts of Large-Scale LUCC on Surface Temperature along with IPCC RCPs: A Global Perspective

  • Xiangzheng Deng,
  • Chunhong Zhao,
  • Yingzhi Lin,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Yi Qu,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Zhan Wang and
  • Feng Wu

24 April 2014

This study focuses on the potential impacts of large-scale land use and land cover changes (LUCC) on surface temperature from a global perspective. As important types of LUCC, urbanization, deforestation, cultivated land reclamation, and grassland de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Large Scale LUCC, Surface Energy Fluxes and Energy Use)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
6,318 Views
20 Pages

Using RS Data-Based CA–Markov Model for Dynamic Simulation of Historical and Future LUCC in Vientiane, Laos

  • Cheechouyang Faichia,
  • Zhijun Tong,
  • Jiquan Zhang,
  • Xingpeng Liu,
  • Emmanuel Kazuva,
  • Kashif Ullah and
  • Bazel Al-Shaibah

13 October 2020

Land use/cover change (LUCC) is one of the causes of global climate and environmental change. Understanding rapid LUCC in urbanized areas is vital for natural resources management for sustainable development. This study primarily considered Vientiane...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,781 Views
18 Pages

1 June 2022

Economic development and trade activities are some of the main driving forces leading to land use and land cover changes (LUCC) with impacts on ecosystem services (ESs) functions. As the origin of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by China...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,680 Views
27 Pages

Simulating Future LUCC by Coupling Climate Change and Human Effects Based on Multi-Phase Remote Sensing Data

  • Zihao Huang,
  • Xuejian Li,
  • Huaqiang Du,
  • Fangjie Mao,
  • Ning Han,
  • Weiliang Fan,
  • Yanxin Xu and
  • Xin Luo

31 March 2022

Future land use and cover change (LUCC) simulations play an important role in providing fundamental data to reveal the carbon cycle response of forest ecosystems to LUCC. Subtropical forests have great potential for carbon sequestration, yet their fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Phenology, and Land Cover and Land Use Change Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,176 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2024

Rice terraces are crucial for agriculture in China’s southern mountainous regions. Land use and land cover change (LUCC) in these areas impact hydrology, but our understanding is limited. In this study, we applied the hydrological assessment to...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,923 Views
20 Pages

Taihu Lake in China has suffered from severe eutrophication over the past 20 years which is partly due to significant land use/cover change (LUCC). There is an increasing need to detect the critical watershed region that significantly affects lake w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,299 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation and Prediction of Ecosystem Service Value in the Zhoushan Islands Based on LUCC

  • Henghui Xi,
  • Wanglai Cui,
  • Li Cai,
  • Mengyuan Chen and
  • Chenglei Xu

20 February 2021

Islands are the confluence of terrestrial ecology and marine ecology. With urban expansion and economic development, the ecological environment of islands is facing serious threats. In order to study the island area land use change/cover (LUCC) and i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Assessing and Valuing Ecosystem Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,588 Views
18 Pages

14 June 2018

This paper presents an analysis of the land use and land cover change (LUCC) of major infrastructure construction as exemplified by the case of Hangzhou International Airport (HIA, Hangzhou, China), which is one of the busiest airports in Eastern Chi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Institutions and Policies for Rural Land Conversion in the Quest for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,384 Views
14 Pages

Response of LUCC on Runoff Generation Process in Middle Yellow River Basin: The Gushanchuan Basin

  • Caihong Hu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Qiang Wu,
  • Shan-e-hyder Soomro and
  • Shengqi Jian

26 April 2020

Runoff reduction in most river basins in China has become a hotpot in recent years. The Gushanchuan river, a primary tributary of the middle Yellow river, Northern China, showed a significant downward trend in the last century. Little is known regard...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrologic, Hydraulic and Geomorphic Modeling for Small and Ungauged Basins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,866 Views
18 Pages

It is of great significance to study the effects and mechanisms of the key driving forces of surface water quality deterioration—climate change and LUCC (land use and land cover change). The Luanhe River Basin (LRB) in north-eastern China was e...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,879 Views
21 Pages

Analyzing Long-Term Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) and PM10 Levels in Coastal Urbanization: The Crucial Influence of Policy Interventions

  • Xue Li,
  • Haihong He,
  • Lizhen Wu,
  • Junfang Chang,
  • Yichen Qin,
  • Chunli Liu,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Mingxin Yao and
  • Wenli Qiao

9 March 2025

With the rapid acceleration of global urbanization, the impact of land use/cover change (LUCC) on the environment and ecosystems has become increasingly prominent, particularly in terms of air quality, which has emerged as a significant issue demandi...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,914 Views
22 Pages

Analyzing and Predicting LUCC and Carbon Storage Changes in Xinjiang’s Arid Ecosystems Under the Carbon Neutrality Goal

  • Jie Song,
  • Xin He,
  • Fei Zhang,
  • Xu Ma,
  • Chi Yung Jim,
  • Brian Alan Johnson and
  • Ngai Weng Chan

27 November 2024

Land use/cover change (LUCC) significantly alters the carbon storage capacity of ecosystems with a profound impact on global climate change. The influence of land use changes on carbon storage capacity and the projection of future carbon stock change...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,706 Views
23 Pages

With the rapid advancement of urbanization and industrialization, the contradiction between the social economy and resources and the environment has become increasingly prominent. On the basis of limited land resources, the way to promote multi-objec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Research in Ecosystem Services of Urban Greenspace and Regional Ecosystem Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
13,009 Views
26 Pages

23 August 2021

Land-use/land cover change (LUCC) is an important problem in developing and under-developing countries with regard to global climatic changes and urban morphological distribution. Since the 1900s, urbanization has become an underlying cause of LUCC,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Long-Term and Multitemporal Land Use/Land Cover Changes Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,573 Views
24 Pages

29 July 2022

Forest carbon sinks (FCS) play an important role in mitigating global climate change, but there is a lack of more accurate, comprehensive, and efficient forest carbon stock estimates and projections for larger regions. By combining 1980–2020 la...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring Forest Carbon Sequestration with Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,287 Views
18 Pages

Simulation of LUCC Dynamics and Estimation of Carbon Stock under Different SSP-RCP Scenarios in Heilongjiang Province

  • Fengjie Gao,
  • Xiaohui Xin,
  • Jianxiang Song,
  • Xuewen Li,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Ying Zhang and
  • Jiafu Liu

25 August 2023

An accurate estimation of carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystem and their future changes in relation to land use and land cover change (LUCC) is important for regional territorial spatial optimization and low-carbon development. In this paper, we in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
194 Views
36 Pages

28 August 2026

High-density valley residential areas face poor ventilation and heat island effects. Taking Lanzhou’s Xin’an Residential Area as a case, this study integrates land use and cover change (LUCC), circuit theory, and CFD to construct a resist...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,978 Views
18 Pages

1 April 2016

Ecosystem services are tightly coupled with availability of solar energy and its partition into energy fluxes, and biomass accumulation, which represents the energy flux in ecosystems, is a key aspect of ecosystem services. This study analyzed the ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Large Scale LUCC, Ecosystem Service, Water Balance and Energy Use)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,500 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2023

The study of geography is centered on the regional system of the human-land relationship, and the core of the study of the geographical system of the human-land relationship is land use change. Land use is the most direct manifestation of human activ...

(This article belongs to the Section Climatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,456 Views
38 Pages

22 April 2022

The karst landscapes of the Mediterranean are regarded as some of the most vulnerable, fragile, and complex systems in the world. They hold a particularly interesting group of small islands with a distinctive, recognizable landscape. The Republic of...

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  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,475 Views
18 Pages

31 July 2019

Wetland is one of the most important ecosystems in the world. A healthy wetland ecosystem is important to the development of a regional and even global economy, and it is also beneficial to the human living conditions. In this paper, remote sensing (...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,954 Views
19 Pages

7 March 2023

Land use/cover change (LUCC) models are essential for studying the profound impact of land use/cover dynamics on various aspects of the natural and social environment. Cellular Automata (CA) is widely used in the dynamic modeling of complex LUCC syst...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,333 Views
26 Pages

Spatiotemporal LUCC Simulation under Different RCP Scenarios Based on the BPNN_CA_Markov Model: A Case Study of Bamboo Forest in Anji County

  • Zihao Huang,
  • Huaqiang Du,
  • Xuejian Li,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Fangjie Mao,
  • Di’en Zhu,
  • Shaobai He and
  • Hua Liu

Simulating spatiotemporal land use and land cover change (LUCC) data precisely under future climate scenarios is an important basis for revealing the carbon cycle response of forest ecosystems to LUCC. In this paper, a coupling model consisting of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,655 Views
25 Pages

12 February 2025

Land use and cover change (LUCC) profoundly impacts the carbon cycle and carbon storage. Under the goal of “carbon neutrality”, studying the mechanisms linking LUCC with terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage is of significant importance fo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing Technology for Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,432 Views
20 Pages

Estimating the Past and Future Trajectory of LUCC on Wetland Ecosystem Service Values in the Yellow River Delta Region of China

  • Zhiyi Zhang,
  • Liusheng Han,
  • Zhaohui Feng,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Shengshuai Wang,
  • Xiangyu Wang and
  • Junfu Fan

10 January 2024

Land use/cover change (LUCC) can impact the provision of ecosystem service values (ESVs), particularly in wetland regions that are subject to frequent and unsustainable land conversions. Exploring the past and future trajectory of LUCC and its effect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Enviromental Disaster)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,321 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2022

Analyses of landscape patterns, analyses of land-use/land-cover evolution characteristics, and a driving force analysis during the expansion of urban agglomerations can assist urban agglomerations in solving ecological and environmental problems; mor...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
782 Views
22 Pages

23 December 2025

Understanding the driving forces of land use and land cover change (LUCC) is crucial for revealing the coupled dynamics of human–land systems and supporting optimized spatial planning and resource allocation. To overcome the limitations of conv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,203 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2022

Assessing the impacts of land use and cover (LUCC) change and climate change on discharge and sediment load is beneficial for the regional management of water resources and the water environment. The Mann-Kendall test and soil and water assessment to...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,242 Views
25 Pages

15 June 2023

This study investigates the spatial-temporal evolution and the interconnectedness of land use/cover change (LUCC) and ecosystem service value (ESV). Such analysis can offer theoretical guidance and support decision-making for sustainable land resourc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Green Technology, Environmental Management and Corporate Social Responsibility from a Global Perspective)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,844 Views
20 Pages

Quantifying the Contribution of LUCC to Surface Energy Budget: A Case Study of Four Typical Cities in the Yellow River Basin in China

  • Qian Chi,
  • Shenghui Zhou,
  • Lijun Wang,
  • Mengyao Zhu,
  • Dandan Liu,
  • Weichao Tang,
  • Xiao Zhao,
  • Siqi Xu,
  • Siyu Ye and
  • Yaoping Cui
  • + 1 author

20 October 2021

With social changes and economic development, human activities inevitably lead to significant changes in land use types. Land use and land cover change (LUCC) leads to a series of changes in energy balance and surface temperature, which has an impact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Urban Climate Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,912 Views
31 Pages

Land-Based Carbon Effects and Human Well-Being Nexus

  • Kexin Wang,
  • Keren He,
  • Xue-Chao Wang,
  • Linglin Xie,
  • Xiaobin Dong,
  • Fan Lei,
  • Changshuo Gong and
  • Mengxue Liu

3 September 2024

In light of international climate agreements and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a growing need to enhance the understanding of the linkages among land use/cover change (LUCC) and its carbon effects (CEs), as well as human well-bei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Sustainability from the Viewpoint of Carbon Emission: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,039 Views
11 Pages

Entropies of the Chinese Land Use/Cover Change from 1990 to 2010 at a County Level

  • Yong Fan,
  • Guangming Yu,
  • Zongyi He,
  • Hailong Yu,
  • Rui Bai,
  • Linru Yang and
  • Di Wu

25 January 2017

Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC) has gradually became an important direction in the research of global changes. LUCC is a complex system, and entropy is a measure of the degree of disorder of a system. According to land use information entropy, this pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Landscape Ecology)
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  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,197 Views
20 Pages

Understanding Driving Forces and Implications Associated with the Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Portugal

  • Bruno M. Meneses,
  • Eusébio Reis,
  • Susana Pereira,
  • Maria J. Vale and
  • Rui Reis

27 February 2017

Understanding the processes of land use and land cover changes (LUCC) and the associated driving forces is important for achieving sustainable development. This paper presents the LUCC in Portugal at the regional level (NUTS II) from 1995 to 2010 and...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
9,729 Views
18 Pages

31 December 2014

Heihe River Basin is the second largest inland river basin in China, where water supply service in the upper reach has greater influence on the sustainable development of middle and lower reaches. This study analyzed the influence of land use/land co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated River Basin Management and Regional Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
4,401 Views
16 Pages

26 August 2021

The ecological environment is suffering from great human disturbance. Scientific assessment of landscape ecological risks can provide scientific guidance for land use management. This study focused on Chaoyang County in China, used ecological risk as...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,712 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2017

A reconstructed land use/land cover change (LUCC) dataset was used with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) to conduct a climate sensitivity analysis over the past two millennia. Compared to a controlled experiment conducted with the CESM, the LU...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,426 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2022

Land use/land cover change (LUCC) research is of great significance to land conservation and regional sustainable development. At present, there is a lack of research on the long-term timing of the change process and mechanisms of LUCC that accords w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land: 10th Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,297 Views
16 Pages

2 April 2021

Few studies have focused on the combined impact of climate change, CO2, and land-use cover change (LUCC), especially the evaluation of the impact of LUCC on net primary productivity (NPP) in the future. In this study, we simulated the overall NPP cha...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,593 Views
15 Pages

29 December 2024

The goal of this study is to analyze the land use and land cover change (LUCC) in the Northeast Sandy Land from 1990 to 2023 and reveal the characteristics of the changes in the value of ecosystem services in the area, aiming to provide scientific re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,144 Views
23 Pages

1 November 2024

Land use and cover change (LUCC) is a key factor influencing global environmental and socioeconomic systems. Many long-term geospatial LUCC datasets have been developed at various scales during the recent decades owing to the availability of long-ter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Land Use and Land Cover Mapping (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,052 Views
35 Pages

3 July 2020

Restoring interlocking forest-agricultural landscapes—forest-agricscapes—to sustainably supply ecosystem services for socio-ecological well-being is one of Malawi’s priorities. Engaging local farmers is crucial in implementing resto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Simulation of Human-Environment Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,605 Views
20 Pages

12 May 2020

Land use and cover change (LUCC) is an important issue affecting the global environment, climate change, and sustainable development. Detecting and predicting LUCC, a dynamic process, and its driving factors will help in formulating effective land us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Remote Sensing in Environmental Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,920 Views
19 Pages

46-Year (1973–2019) Permafrost Landscape Changes in the Hola Basin, Northeast China Using Machine Learning and Object-Oriented Classification

  • Raul-David Șerban,
  • Mihaela Șerban,
  • Ruixia He,
  • Huijun Jin,
  • Yan Li,
  • Xinyu Li,
  • Xinbin Wang and
  • Guoyu Li

13 May 2021

Land use and cover changes (LUCC) in permafrost regions have significant consequences on ecology, engineered systems, and the environment. Obtaining more details about LUCC is crucial for sustainable development, land conservation, and environment ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring of Forest Ecological Environment Based on Remote Sensing Technology)
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  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,754 Views
21 Pages

6 March 2021

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an area sensitive to global climate change, and land use/land cover change (LUCC) plays a vital role in regulating climate system at different temporal and spatial scales. In this study, we analyzed the temporal and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,704 Views
25 Pages

12 May 2025

Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of land use/cover change (LUCC) and landscape ecological risk (LER), and understanding their coupling mechanisms are crucial for sustainable development in ecologically vulnerable areas. This stu...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
11,275 Views
17 Pages

Vegetation Restoration and Its Environmental Effects on the Loess Plateau

  • Hongfei Zhao,
  • Hongming He,
  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Chunyu Bai and
  • Chuangjuan Zhang

8 December 2018

An analysis of land use/cover change (LUCC) on the Loess Plateau over the past 30 years and its environmental effects was performed to provide scientific guidance for a sustainable development policy for the regional ecological environment and social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
12,559 Views
17 Pages

Mapping the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on the Urban Heat Island Effect—A Case Study of Changchun, China

  • Chaobin Yang,
  • Xingyuan He,
  • Fengqin Yan,
  • Lingxue Yu,
  • Kun Bu,
  • Jiuchun Yang,
  • Liping Chang and
  • Shuwen Zhang

20 February 2017

The spatio-temporal patterns of land use/land cover changes (LUCC) can significantly affect the distribution and intensity of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, few studies have mapped a clear picture of the influence of LUCC on UHI. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Heat Island)

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