ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2025, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 85-98

Assessment of landscape transformation in regions of new development based on satellite data (Khabarovsk Krai as an example)

A.V. Ostroukhov 1 
1 Institute of the Water and Ecology Problems FEB RAS, Khabarovsk, Russia
Accepted: 28.01.2025
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2025-22-2-85-98
Based on the landscape map of territory, the data from Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) MODIS Collection 6 and Global Forest Change (GFC) projects, a methodology for classifying the landscapes in the regions of new development according to the degree and extent of anthropogenic transformation has been developed and tested. The peculiarity of these regions is that anthropogenic activity does not lead to the formation of large areas of residential-industrial and agricultural landscapes, the proportion of which is traditionally used to assess the degree of transformation of the natural environment. The results of assessment of the degree of transformation of the territory of Khabarovsk Region reflect the current level of transformation of the landscapes of the territory at 60.67 %, of which only 0.33 % refers to anthropogenic landscapes: rural-industrial and agricultural. The share of preserved indigenous natural landscapes is 39 %, varying in landscapes of different natural zones from 71.7 % (of the area of the zone) for tundra landscapes to 31.8 % for forest geosystems. Along with the main parameters (landscape type index, area, scale and degree of transformation), the attribute table of the resulting map contains additional characteristics of the landscape cover of the territory, reflecting its physical-geographical zoning, zonal-sector and altitude-belt structure and others. All this provides an opportunity for extended analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of landscape transformation, detailed analysis of spatial features and results of anthropogenic transformation of the territory.
Keywords: landscape transformation, Global Forest Change, regions of new development, Khabarovsk Krai, reforestation
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