River restoration projects are often accompanied by major land consolidation operations, notably the re-allocation of adjacent farmland, which offers opportunity to create an extensively-managed buffer zone outside levees where specific habitat features installed for endangered terrestrial and semi-aquatic biodiversity. Modern, enrivonmentally-friendly operations might thus not only contribute ...

We introduce the Gini coefficient to assess the rationality of land use structure. The rapid transformation of land use in China provides a typical case for land use structure analysis. In this study, a land Gini coefficient (LGC) analysis tool was developed. The land use structure rationality was analyzed and evaluated based on statistical data for China between 1996 and 2008. The results show...

Two geographers specializing in Russian agriculture and rural development present an exploratory essay on the phenomenon of agricultural land abandonment in the countryside of European Russia. A particular focus is on investigating the relative importance of physical conditions (fertility) and proximity to regional population centers in explaining the prevalence of land abandonment. A map depic...

As the basic unit of farmland, parcel is crucial for remote sensing tasks, such as urban management. Previous studies farmland parcels extraction are based on boundary detection and instance segmentation methods. However, these methods perform poorly in with complex shape fuzzy due to insufficient feature capability. Moreover, lack multi-scale features fusion, they difficult extract different s...

The Heihe River Basin (HRB) is a typical arid inland river basin in northwestern China. From the 1960s to the 1990s, the downstream flow in the HRB declined as a result of large, artificial changes in the distribution of water and land and a lack of effective water resource management. Consequently, the ecosystems of the lower reaches of the basin substantially deteriorated. To restore these de...