Abstract:Five sets of satellite images of spacing 37 years were used for mapping the land cover change in Jiaodong Peninsula in the present study. Unsupervised classification was applied to classify the land cover into 4 categories including vegetation, built-up land, water body and bared land. Among them vegetation and built-up land were listed as the first and second dominant category accounted for over 90%. Continuous decline in the land covered by vegetation were founded during the study period, whereas the built-u… Show more
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