Thematic Maps for Land-Use Planning and Policy Decisions in the Calaggio Stream Catchment Area

Lisio, Antonio Di; Russo, Filippo

doi:10.4113/jom.2010.1105

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“…Research related to land unit areas has typically been limited to ecological studies, such as biodiversity, as this term originated in the ecological sciences [23][24][25][26][27]. We found only one previous study which used the LUA concept for soil research, but it did not consider SM [30].…”

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Soil Moisture Mapping in an Arid Area Using a Land Unit Area (LUA) Sampling Approach and Geostatistical Interpolation Techniques

Gharechelou

Tateishi

Sharma

et al. 2016

IJGI

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Soil moisture (SM) plays a key role in many environmental processes and has a high spatial and temporal variability. Collecting sample SM data through field surveys (e.g., for validation of remote sensing-derived products) can be very expensive and time consuming if a study area is large, and producing accurate SM maps from the sample point data is a difficult task as well. In this study, geospatial processing techniques are used to combine several geo-environmental layers relevant to SM (soil, geology, rainfall, land cover, etc.) into a land unit area (LUA) map, which delineates regions with relatively homogeneous geological/geomorphological, land use/land cover, and climate characteristics. This LUA map is used to guide the collection of sample SM data in the field, and the field data is finally spatially interpolated to create a wall-to-wall map of SM in the study area (Garmsar, Iran). The main goal of this research is to create a SM map in an arid area, using a land unit area (LUA) approach to obtain the most appropriate sample locations for collecting SM field data. Several environmental GIS layers, which have an impact on SM, were combined to generate a LUA map, and then field surveying was done in each class of the LUA map. A SM map was produced based on LUA, remote sensing data indexes, and spatial interpolation of the field survey sample data. The several interpolation methods (inverse distance weighting, kriging, and co-kriging) were evaluated for generating SM maps from the sample data. The produced maps were compared to each other and validated using ground truth data. The results show that the LUA approach is a reasonable method to create the homogenous field to introduce a representative sample for field soil surveying. The geostatistical SM map achieved adequate accuracy; however, trend analysis and distribution of the soil sample point locations within the LUA types should be further investigated to achieve even better results. Co-kriging produced the most accurate SM map of the study area.

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Section: Derivation Of the Lua Mapmentioning

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Soil Moisture Mapping in an Arid Area Using a Land Unit Area (LUA) Sampling Approach and Geostatistical Interpolation Techniques

Gharechelou

Tateishi

Sharma

et al. 2016

IJGI

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“…In recent years, there has been a growing application of spatial analysis and mapping in land use and planning, some applications focused on the data source or the mapping method as mapping with Remote Sensing images or other data sources, mapping model, mapping index (Chi, 2010;Park, Jeon, Kim, & Choi, 2011;Setiawan, Mathieu, & Thompson-Fawcett, 2006;Steele, Winne, & Redmond, 1998;Wentz, Stefanov, Gries, & Hope, 2006); and others focused on different area of interest (AOI) as stream catchment area, city, county, (Di Lisio & Russo, 2010;Huang et al, 2012;Setiawan et al, 2006). However, there are few studies on mapping of illegal land use, especially on risk assessment of illegal land use on the community-level with the spatial analysis method, and our study would be useful in this field of study.…”

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Illegal land use risk assessment of Shenzhen City, China

Huang

2014

Journal of Maps

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In the eastern coastal cities of China, the need for supervision of illegal land use is urgent requiring new ways to promptly identify and put a stop to the practice. In this paper, we present a practical example through the generation of thematic maps for illegal land use risk assessment in Shenzhen city with the assistance of GIS. Thematic maps are useful in relation to the following points. First, they could be a template for generating illegal land use risk assessment maps. Second, illegal land use risk assessment maps indicate the different risk levels of each community, which allows for more effective illegal land use supervision to protect the cultivated and ecological land. Third, with the assistance of GIS, the process of spatial analysis and mapping becomes more efficient as a tool in this supervision.

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“…In this paper, we present a practical example of generating thematic maps for land use planning with the assistance of a geographic information system (GIS). These maps are different from western countries' land use planning maps (Dilisio & Russo, 2010;Tapiador & Casanova, 2003). They would be useful for researchers studying land use thematic mapping and local government officials to make land use management-related decisions.…”

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Thematic maps for county-level land use planning in Contemporary China

Huang

Liu

et al. 2012

Journal of Maps

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Land use thematic maps are essential for the implementation of land use planning. China launched the third round of its land use planning in 2003, and the making of land use thematic maps series is one of the innovations for the new planning. The objective of this paper is to provide information about generating county-level land use thematic maps. The study area, Dachang Hui Autonomous County (178 km 2 ), is located in Northern China and shares a boundary with Beijing. Methods for generating thematic land use maps are presented. These thematic maps include an existing land use map, zoning map for proposed land use, prime farmland protection map, zoning map for construction land expansion, planned land consolidation map, and planned major land use projects map. The scale for these maps is 1:50,000. All these maps are useful for researchers and local government, allowing them to be used as a reference for the study of land use mapping and support land resource management and planning.

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Thematic Maps for Land-Use Planning and Policy Decisions in the Calaggio Stream Catchment Area

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Soil Moisture Mapping in an Arid Area Using a Land Unit Area (LUA) Sampling Approach and Geostatistical Interpolation Techniques

Soil Moisture Mapping in an Arid Area Using a Land Unit Area (LUA) Sampling Approach and Geostatistical Interpolation Techniques

Illegal land use risk assessment of Shenzhen City, China

Thematic maps for county-level land use planning in Contemporary China

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