Application of landscape fragmentation in winter wheat area sampling design[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2010,14(6):1117-1138. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20100605.
Fragmentation is often used to describe spatial structure of earth landscape ecology.This paper introduces the fragmentation in remote sensing sampling survey
and focuses on the application of area-scale and fragmentation in the stratified sampling.Experimental results show that:(1) in the regions with broken planting structure
correlation coefficients of area-scale and fragmentation are both above 0.7.Therefore
they both can be used as auxiliary variables for stratification design in such regions.With the increasing of sampling grids
correlation coefficient of area-scale increases
while correlation coefficient of fragmentation decreases.When sampling grid size is smaller than 100m×100m
fragmentation is better than area-scale.(2) in the regions with regular planting structure
area-scale is always better than fragmentation.Fragmentation is more suitable for the application of winter wheat area sample survey in regions where planting structure is broken