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引用次数: 6
Abstract
Dynamics of open surface water is of great significance to understand the impacts of global changes and human activities on water resources. However, long-term changes of open-surface water bodies in the Yellow River Basin have remained poorly characterized. In the study, 26,681 high-quality Landsat images were processed using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform to study the long-term changes of the open water bodies in the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2020. A percentile-based image synthesis method was used to collect training samples. The multi-index water body extraction rule (MIWER) was proposed to rapidly extract surface water bodies. The results show that (1) The MIWER is suitable for long-term and large-scale surface water mapping based on Landsat images; (2) The average area of permanent and seasonal water in the last 20 years is 9062.59 km2 and 6918.83 km2, respectively, accounting for 56.7% and 43.3% of the total surface water in the Yellow River Basin, respectively; (3) From 2000–2020, both permanent and seasonal water in the whole Yellow River Basin and sub-basins have increased. In general, the total open surface water shows an increasing trend with obvious spatial heterogeneity; (4) The changes of surface water in the Yellow River Basin are related to climate change and intensive human activities, but the influencing factors vary in different regions. The findings of this study demonstrate a novel robust, low-cost water extraction method that satisfies the requirements of terrestrial water inundation mapping and management across the Yellow River Basin. The methodology of this study is expected to be extended to global surface waters, providing valuable information for global surface water resource planning and management.
AnthropoceneEarth and Planetary Sciences-Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
CiteScore
6.30
自引率
0.00%
发文量
27
审稿时长
102 days
期刊介绍:
Anthropocene is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed works addressing the nature, scale, and extent of interactions that people have with Earth processes and systems. The scope of the journal includes the significance of human activities in altering Earth’s landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems over a range of time and space scales - from global phenomena over geologic eras to single isolated events - including the linkages, couplings, and feedbacks among physical, chemical, and biological components of Earth systems. The journal also addresses how such alterations can have profound effects on, and implications for, human society. As the scale and pace of human interactions with Earth systems have intensified in recent decades, understanding human-induced alterations in the past and present is critical to our ability to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to changes in the future. The journal aims to provide a venue to focus research findings, discussions, and debates toward advancing predictive understanding of human interactions with Earth systems - one of the grand challenges of our time.