Analysis on process of temporal and spatial evolution of urban built-up area expansion in the Yellow River Basin

Abstract

Urban spatial expansion is known as an important indicator of urbanization. In order to provide a reference for urban spatial expansion in the future high-quality development strategy of the Yellow River Basin (YB) cities in China, it is necessary to identify and calculate urban spatial expansion patterns. For this reason, we provide a "Spatiotemporal pattern-Center of gravity migrationt-Expansion pattern" solution to identify and calculate urban spatial expansion patterns in the YB. More specifically, 78 prefecture-level cities in the YB were selected as the subjects of the study, using the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Line Scan System (DMSP/OLS) and the National Polarimetric Partnership/Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP/VIIRS) nighttime light data (NTL), together with the center of gravity shift and common edge detection models, to identify the YB urban expansion patterns from 2000–2018. The results suggest that: (1) on the spatial pattern, there is a obvious difference in the expansion intensity and growth rate of the urban built-up (UB) areas of cities in the upper and middle reaches of YB. In addition, there are also certain differences between the expansion patterns of provincial capital cities and non-capital cities; (2) The UB areas of YB has steadily expand from 3,500 km2 in 2000 to 10,600 km2 in 2018, amongst which the expansion of provincial capital cities is the most obvious 1919 km2; (3) Interestingly it is also discovered that urban expansion in Qinghai Province, the sourceland of the YB, takes place in a diffuse way, with the shifting of the centre of gravity for four types of total area, net increase in area, rate of growth and intensity of expansion followed a "northwest to southeast" tendency of development.

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