WANG Jin-qiang, LI Jun-feng, WANG Zhao-yang, YANG Guang, HE Xin-lin
Water Saving Irrigation. 2019, (1):
96-101.
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Since the promotion of urbanization and large-scale water-saving irrigation, great changes have taken place in the Northwest Inland Oasis of China. Using Remote Sensing earth observation technology, the year of 1998, 2007 and 2017 image data (TM /OLI) were selected in the Shihezi region of Xinjiang, combined with Dimidiate Pixel model to estimate the vegetation coverage and vegetation changes, and calculated the transition matrix of vegetation cover area change in each year. The results showed that vegetation coverage in the study area in 1998, 2007 and 2017 were 52%, 60%, and 48%, respectively, which showed a trend of firstly increasing and then decreasing. The vegetation coverage areas of grade II and III were increased 1.17% and 1.56% per year respectively. The vegetation cover areas of grades I, IV and V decreased at an average rate of 0.05%, 0.26% and 0.75% per year, respectively. The area of vegetation degradation in this region was larger than the restoration area in the past 20 years. Based on the analysis of land, meteorological and hydrological data, we believe that the large-scale use of water-saving irrigation, over-exploitation of groundwater and the expansion of urbanization are the main reasons for vegetation degradation in the area.