The Production–Living–Ecological Land Classification System and Its Characteristics in the Hilly Area of Sichuan Province, Southwest China Based on Identification of the Main Functions
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The study aimed to build a new classification system of production–living–ecological land, based on different functions analyzed by various methods via samples.
First of all, a complete reorganisation of the manuscript is highly encouraged.
The Methods section includes results, instead of describing the method itself appropriately. The results should be moved to the Results section.
Theory of hierarchical clustering method and Functional Index Model should be described in a much more detailed way. What is the exact purpose of these methods? What can these methods show to the scientist and the readers about the data? Why is it important to use these exact methods? In addition, description of landscape metrics and method of Geomorphons are completely missing from Methods section, the authors write about only the results of application.
Figure 1 should be improved, because it is not obvious which part is highlighted and depicted in the map on the right side of the figure.
The topic would be interesting, but the most important problem of the manuscript is that the authors used many methods in the frames of one manuscript and the focus is lost. It is necessary to describe the methods in the relevant section in a clear way. Then the results should be described based on the methods, separately from the description of the methods in the relevant section. After complete reorganisation the manuscript should be revised again.
English language and style is appropriate, minor check and revision is necessary. (E.g. The basic processing of satellite images was through Erdas Imagine).
The link to the ASTERGDEM website in Section 2.2. is unavailable.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for your pertinent and valuable comments. We have made the modifications in accordance with your suggestions. Please see the Annex for details: Response to Reviewer 1 Comments.docx.
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Reviewer 2 Report
see comments in attached file
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for your pertinent and valuable comments. We have made the modifications in accordance with your suggestions. Please see the Annex for details: Response to Reviewer 2 Comments.docx.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
In Line 180 there is a sentence which is incomplete: "Microsoft excel statistics and analysis results."
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you very much for your careful review. We have made the modifications in accordance with your suggestions. Please see the Annex for details: Response to Reviewer 1 Comments -2.docx.
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