Assessing Potential Bioenergy Production on Urban Marginal Land in 20 Major Cities of China by the Use of Multi-View High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Areas
2.2. Data
2.3. Urban Marginal Land Estimation
3. Results
3.1. Accuracy Assessment
3.2. Marginal Land Resources in the 20 Cities of China
3.3. Bioenergy Potential in the 20 Cities of China
3.4. Landscape Patterns of Marginal Land
4. Discussion
4.1. Development of Biofuels in China
4.2. Practical Considerations of Urban Marginal Land
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Data | Resolution | Date | |
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ZY-3 3D land-cover products | Land-cover classification | 2.1 m | 2014–2017 |
Building height | 2.1 m | 2014–2017 | |
Pan-sharpened images | 2.1 m | 2014–2017 | |
Ancillary geographical information dataset | Land-use classification | 30 m | 2015 |
Soil classification | Vector | 2017 | |
DEM | 30 m | 2017 |
Index | Abbreviation | Definition | |
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Shannon’s diversity index | SHDI | m = number of patch types. = proportion of the landscape occupied by patch type i. | |
Area-weighted mean shape index | SHAPE_AM | m = number of patch types. n = number of patches of type i. = perimeter (m) of patch ij. = area (m2) of patch ij. A = total landscape area (m2). | |
Patch density | PD | n = number of all the patches in the landscape. A = total landscape area (m2) | |
Splitting index | SPLIT | m = number of patch types. n = number of patches of type i. = area (m2) of patch ij. A = total landscape area (m2). |
Energy Crop | Crop Yield (t/hm2) | Ethanol Production per Unit Area (t/ hm2) |
---|---|---|
Cassava | 25.11 | 2.94 |
Sweet potato | 24.20 | 3.03 |
Sweet sorghum | 60.00 | 3.92 |
City | SHDI | SHAPE_AM | PD | SPLIT |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wuhan | 0.5268 | 3.8641 | 256.3316 | 505.0575 |
Lanzhou | 0.4763 | 4.4051 | 306.7608 | 315.1415 |
Beijing | 0.5948 | 3.1431 | 309.2137 | 3201.0624 |
Chongqing | 0.6546 | 3.1383 | 369.7685 | 1056.9696 |
Hohhot | 0.4956 | 4.9510 | 207.4825 | 203.0184 |
Shenzhen | 0.5158 | 3.0814 | 361.8865 | 1221.6038 |
Harbin | 0.3412 | 5.3815 | 317.0489 | 511.8621 |
Shanghai | 0.6923 | 3.4665 | 439.3523 | 1073.1278 |
Urumqi | 0.2861 | 11.0431 | 169.8163 | 76.6271 |
Nanning | 0.5120 | 3.3161 | 351.3262 | 606.9387 |
Dalian | 0.5478 | 3.5638 | 480.6290 | 855.0483 |
Haikou | 0.6653 | 2.6049 | 782.4346 | 614.8317 |
Kunming | 0.5093 | 3.2013 | 431.5100 | 820.6415 |
Hangzhou | 0.6270 | 3.1013 | 537.3208 | 1557.683 |
Qingdao | 0.5884 | 4.7296 | 258.4764 | 371.8006 |
Yinchuan | 0.5644 | 3.7721 | 262.9526 | 958.5792 |
Xi’an | 0.6403 | 3.1353 | 357.5116 | 1465.1117 |
Fuzhou | 0.6766 | 3.3440 | 543.6591 | 201.6644 |
Nanjing | 0.5564 | 3.5715 | 309.0620 | 1002.6987 |
Lhasa | 0.4317 | 5.0551 | 200.6853 | 50.8254 |
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Zhang, B.; Yang, J.; Cao, Y. Assessing Potential Bioenergy Production on Urban Marginal Land in 20 Major Cities of China by the Use of Multi-View High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7291. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137291
Zhang B, Yang J, Cao Y. Assessing Potential Bioenergy Production on Urban Marginal Land in 20 Major Cities of China by the Use of Multi-View High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data. Sustainability. 2021; 13(13):7291. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137291
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Ben, Jie Yang, and Yinxia Cao. 2021. "Assessing Potential Bioenergy Production on Urban Marginal Land in 20 Major Cities of China by the Use of Multi-View High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data" Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7291. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137291