Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment and Planning Enlightenment of Songhua River Basin Based on Multi-Source Heterogeneous Data Fusion

• Published in: Water (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 24; p. 4060
• Main Authors: Zhao, Ying, Tao, Zhe, Wang, Mengnan, Chen, Yuanhua, Wu, Rui, Guo, Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2022
• Subjects: Buffer zones; Data integration; Ecological effects; Ecological risk assessment; Ecosystems; Environmental management; Environmental protection; Environmental risk; Environmental science; Human influences; Land use; Landscape; landscape ecological risk; Landscape ecology; multi-source data fusion; Multisensor fusion; Principal components analysis; Remote sensing; remote sensing image processing; Risk assessment; Risk levels; Risk management; River basins; River ecology; Rivers; Soils; Songhua River Basin; Spatial analysis; Urban areas; Watersheds; Songhua River
• ISSN: 2073-4441; 2073-4441
• DOI: 10.3390/w14244060

In this study, the remote sensing images of the 30 km buffer zone from Zhaoyuan to Baidu of the Songhua River, which is rich in land use types and frequent in human activities, were selected as the research object to analyze land use change and driving factors. The objective of this research is to evaluate the ecological risk of watershed landscapes and provide a basis for watershed ecological environment protection and planning. On this basis, the landscape pattern index data were extracted, and a three-dimensional comprehensive index system of the natural, social and landscape pattern was constructed. In addition, based on the spatial principal component analysis (SPCA), data fusion was carried out to improve the accuracy and comprehensiveness of landscape ecological risk assessment results. The risk level of watershed landscape ecology was divided into low ecological risk, medium-low ecological risk, medium ecological risk, medium-high ecological risk, and high ecological risk by the Natural Breaks method. According to the results of the landscape ecological risk assessment and the characteristics of risk sources in each risk level area, the ecological protection and planning enlightenment suitable for each risk level area were obtained. The research content can provide ideas and evidence for environmental managers to formulate ecological risk protection strategies and reduce the impact of ecological risk threats.