Wetlands shrink simulation using Cellular Automata: A case study in Sanjiang Plain, China

Abstract

Wetlands are extremely valuable natural resources, the simulation of wetland landscape spatial-temporal evolution can reveal the mechanisms and laws of landscape succession, achieve the sustainable landscape use and provide wetland conservation and management decision support. Thesis takes the inland freshwater wetlands in the Sanjiang Plain for experimental region, carries out experiment of wetland landscape changing process simulation, results show that visual effects of simulation and prediction are both good, and the total accuracy of points to points are also above 84%, which verifies the feasibility and effectiveness of wetland landscape spatial-temporal evolution simulation using Cellular Automata, and provides a new technical idea and method for wetland landscape change and protection research. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.