Language: Chinese with English summary
1986; Hardcover;370x260mm;228
The present atlas shows highlights extracted from several case studies of geoscience analyses. The editors have merely " made a garment by plercing together little bits of fur", with the aims of sharing experiences with colleagues and proving a reference for the interested remote sensing practitioners.
The Landsat MSS images appeared in the atlas were selected over the priod of 1975 to 1978, all with fine quality. In order to meet the specific requirements for various objects or areas of research interests, false color composits were mainly made by the optical method using three-band combination. The digital image processing technique was also applied in some cases. Both results revealed vividly certain rules of the temporal changes and spatial distributions of the research interests. Most of the explainations were written by the workers who have long been devoting themselves to the geosciences and had profound knowledges of the ground truth upon their study areas, while the rest were abstracted from heir published papers, with the illustrations being adapted for this atlas .
Hence, both the illustrations and the explaninations not only show th econcepts and understandings of geosciences obtained from analyzing the Landsat images, but also reflect the geoscience test and verification on the information bearing capability of Landsat images.
The layout of the atlas was developed with considerations of :
(1) The selection of the typical areas: Areas of higher degree of research values in different natural zones were in principle selected, whenever data were available. Typical analyses were then applied to the predominant factors in the process of natural history within the areas selected. The unnecessary repetition had been avoided.
(2) The architecture of the atlas: Four thematic applications were analysed and cited here. The sequence proceeds logically from first, the landcover, and then the drainages, which is followed by the surface features. The geological structures close up the discussions.
(3) Geoscience analyses of Landsat images being a reversible repetitive understanding process: Landsat images provide some unprecedented knowledges and concepts of the earth while rules of geosciences improve, in turn, the human capabilities in analyzing information on the images. The explainations, graphic illustrations as well as the corresponded images in the atlas had not been stuck to a single pattion extraction from Landsat images, or by referring to the ground truth data and collateral materials.
Table of Contents
1. Land Cover and Land Use
(1) Urban development of Beijing
(2) Land use around Beijing (1,2)
(3) Land types in Hulun-buir, Nei Monggol
(4) Grassland in southern Hailar, Nei Monggol
(5) Land use of northeastern plain, China
(6) Land use of wudalianchi lake, Heilongjiang
(7) Land use and new farm land of the Nenjaing river basin, northeast China
(8) Type of swamp in Sanjiang plain, Heilongjiang
(9) Land use of Yichun forest area, Heilongjiang
(10) Land use of the Taihu lake plain, Jiangsu
(11) Land use of Ningbo-Shaoxing plain, Zhejiang
(12) Land use around the Dongting lake, Hunan
(13) Land use of the Zhujiang river (Pearl river) delta, Guangdong
(14) Land use of Cehngdu plain, Sichuan
(15) Swamp in Zoige plateau, northern Sichuan
(16) Vegetation types of western Yunnan plateau
(17) Forest of Bomi area, Eastern Xizang (Tibet)
(18) Vegetation types of the Yamzho yumco lake area, southern Xizang (Tibet)
(19) Land use in Yinchuan Plain, Ningxia
(20) Develoment of agricultural land use in northern piedmont of the Tianshan Mt., Xinjaing
(21) Grassland of the middle tianshan Mt., Xinjiang
(22) The soil type in southern piedmont of the tianshan Mt., Xinjiang
2. Hydrological Dynamic Phenomena
(1) Migration of river in the Hebei Plain
(2) Landform of the luanhe river delta, Hebei
(3) Migration of shore line, bohai sea gulf
(4) Change of the Huanghe river (Yellow river) delta, Shandong
(5) Change of estuary and suspended sediment diffusion of the changjiang river (The Yangtze)
(6) Paleo-lagoon in the Lixia river region, Jiangsu
(7) Braided reach of the Changjiang river (the Yangtze), (Wuhu to Nanjing)
(8) Migration of the Xihu lake and Hangzhou bay, Zhejinag
(9) Coastal zone of the Zhoushan islands, Zhejiang
(10) Seasonal Change of Water level in the poyang lake
(11) Historical change of the Dongting lake
(12) The Qiongzhou strait, Guangdong
(13) Coral reef of Xishan Archipelago
(14) The Yamzho Yumco lak, southern Xizang
(15) Development track of the Qinhai lake, Qinghai
(16) The gyaring lake and the ngoring lake, Qinghai
(17) Change of the lop nur, Xinjiang (1,2)
(18) Formation of the manas lake, Xinjiang
(19) Glacier of tomor peak, Xijiang (1,2)
(20) Permafrost of the Yaxing lake area, Qinghai
3. Regional Characters of Landform
(1) Volcanoes in the Changbai Mt., Jilin
(2) Landform in the Nanjing area, Jiangsu
(3) Volcanoes and lake basins in Tengchong area, Yunnan
(4) Lake basin of eastern Yunnan Plateau
(5) Geomorphology in Lhasa area, Xizang
(6) Karst landform in Guizhou plateau
(7) Karst in the Beipan river basin, Guizhou
(8) Karst in Guilin-Liuzhou area, Guangxi
(9) Topography of the mount Qomolangma area (1,2)
(10) Loess in the middle river basin of the Huanghe river, Shaanxi and Gansu
(11) Loess plateau of eastern Gansu
(12) The weihe river basin, Shaanxi
(13) The southern region of Qaidam basin, Qinghai
(14) The western margin of qaidam basin, Qinghai
(15) Landform in the Kunlun mountains, Xinjiang
(16) Volcanoes in ashikkol basin, Xinjiang
(17) Lower reach of the kaidu river and the konqi river, Xinjiang
(18) Lower reach of the tarim river, Xinjiang
(19) Turpan basin, Xinjiang
(20) Tarim basin and taklimakan desert,Xinjiang (1,2)
(21) Taiwan island
4. Lineament of geologic Structure
(1) Pattern of fault in Beijing area
(2) Geologic structure and alluvial landform in the Handan area, Hebei
(3) Linear feature of Xingtai area, Hebei
(4) Fault basin in Datong, Northern Shanxi
(5) Circular feature of eastern Fujian
(6) The Tancheng-Lujiang Fault, East China
(7) Fault of Huangxian County, Northern Shandong
(8) Geologic structure along the Sanxia Gorge, Hubei
(9) Rifting Valley in the Anning valley, western Sichuan
(10) Fold of eastern Sichuan
(11) Circular feature in Tengchong area, Yunnan
(12) Hair Pin bend of the Yarlung Zangbo River, Eastern Xizang
(13) Regional geologic feature around bosten lake, Xinjiang
(14) Monocline of Kalpin, Xinjiang
(15) Hydrogeology in Hotan area, Xinjiang
5. Reference Map for Interpretation
(1) A general view of China-Lndsat image mosaic
(2) Map of land cover and land use in China
(3) Map of river and lake basin in China
(4) Map of drainage pattern and river density in China
(5) Map of orography and relative relief in China
(6) Map of erosion and deposition of land surface in China
(7) Map of climatic landform in China
(8) Map of fault-block tectonic in China
(9) Map of linear structures in China
(10) Map of principal tectonic zone in China
(11) Map of thermal dynamic tectonic and rock block in China
(12) Map of aspect of diastrophism and volcanoes in China
(13) Synopsis of reference maps
(14) Epilogue
(15) Author index
