[1]XU Shuang,LI Fei-xue,LIU Ai-li,et al.Research on Spatial Variability of Elevation in Typical Loess Landform[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2014,21(05):1-6.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
21
Number of periods:
2014 05
Page number:
1-6
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Public date:
2014-10-28
- Title:
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Research on Spatial Variability of Elevation in Typical Loess Landform
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XU Shuang1,2, LI Fei-xue1,2, LIU Ai-li3, LI Man-chun1,2
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1. Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China;
2. Department of Geographical Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China;
3. Institute of Remote Scensing, Nanjing Univerity of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Keywords:
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Loess Plateau; spatial variability; variogram; elevation
- CLC:
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P931.6
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- Abstract:
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The topography in the Loess Plateau changes orderly from south to north and this constructs the unique landscape of the Loess Plateau. Aiming to explore the spatial variations of the elevation among various loess landforms, we selected seven typical loess landforms as cases and applied variogram model to the loess landform analysis. DEM datasets with 30 meters resolution were used, and 5 quantified indices were calculated and analyzed to study the spatial distribution characteristics and individual features of the loess landform. Furthermore, we found that the best window size is 4 000 m for highlighting the spatial variation characteristics of the elevation based on the scale effects. We addressed that the elevation distributions in different sample areas were as follows: (1) the more complicated and fragmented the landform is, the lower the range of the autocorrelation tends to be; (2) the spatial change range tends to decline coupled with the evolution of landform; (3) the elevation in the research areas has strong autocorrelation with an anisotropic change; (4) five characteristic parameters of the variogram model change in the order big—small—large or small—big—small within the loess landforms from Chunhua to Shenmu, which is identical to the change of the loess landform from south to north.