Yuh Lurng Chung, Ming Lun Lu. Applying Impact Index to Assessing the Human Impact of Protection Forest[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2006, (4): 531-536. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20060478.
Applying Impact Index to Assessing the Human Impact of Protection Forest
The protection forest lands are distributed scattering among the island in Taiwan
its function in safeguarding the territory is very important.In recent years
because the nature and social environment change quickly
people need more and more land resource;therefore the protection forest land was illegal lyused by the people usually.The purposes of this study are to use remote sensing data to detect the human impact on the protection forest of Kenting Park from 1993 to 2001.Remote sensing data has been used(1993 and 2001 SPOT XS) to establish the land-use database and ancillary with The Bureau of Forestry’s protection forest database as the data input of the study.Moreover we used impact indicators of land resources and GIS spatial analysis tools to measure the percent urban growth metric
percent farm growth metric
and percent human impact metric on these protected forest.The result showed that 8 protection forests have serious human impact and attentions should be paied by the manager.
College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University
Key Laboratory of Spatial Data Mining and Information Sharing, Ministry of Education
Fujian Geologic Surveying and Mapping Institute
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, Beijing Normal University
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences