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Remote Sensing Technology and Application  2002, Vol. 17 Issue (2): 86-92    DOI: 10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2002.2.86
    
Spatial Expansion of Urban/Town in Fuqing and Its Driving Force Analysis
XU Han-qiu
(Department of Environmental and Resources Engineering,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou350002,China)
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Abstract  

Fuqing is one of the cities in the coastal zonal areas of Fujian province, showing the fastest eco-
nomic growth. The rapid economic development, especially in the 1990s, has resulted in the change of eco-
nomic structure of Fuqing from agriculture dominant to industry dominant. With this significant economic
shift, the area of urban/town land use has also increased. In essence, urban expansion in which non-urban
land use changes to urban land use is one aspect of urbanization. To reveal the actual change of this land
use type, remote sensing technology was employed, which extracted the urban/town land use information
from two Landsat TM images of 1991 and 1996, respectively. The study indicates that the urban/town
land use of Fuqing has grown by 16.17 km2during the five years, 1.2 times more than its original area in
1991. Obviously, the value of urban/town expansion is an important index, which is valuable for the as-
sessment of urbanization. The achieved spatial data of urban/town expansion were integrated with the so-
cio-economic data through a GIS. This finally reveals that the driving forces to the urban/town land use
expansion in Fuqing were the rapid industry development during the period.

Key words:  Urbanization      Driving force      Remote sensing      GIS      Fuqing     
Received:  07 February 2002      Published:  21 November 2011
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XU Han-qiu. Spatial Expansion of Urban/Town in Fuqing and Its Driving Force Analysis. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2002, 17(2): 86-92.

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