Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1
Quantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and forecasting of the progress towards SDG11.3.1 are of great significance for the promotion of sustainable urban development. This study employed the spatiotemporal normalized threshold method to extract urban built-up areas in...
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| description | Quantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and forecasting of the progress towards SDG11.3.1 are of great significance for the promotion of sustainable urban development. This study employed the spatiotemporal normalized threshold method to extract urban built-up areas in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt based on night-time light data and investigated the intricate patterns of urban expansion from 2000 to 2020. Then, the historical trends of the SDG11.3.1 indicators within the economic belt were evaluated, and future urban built-up areas were predicted based on the SSP1 scenario. The results indicate the following: (1) Built-up area extraction has an overall accuracy that exceeds 97% and G-mean values that all surpass 82%, indicating the high accuracy of the method. (2) The Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt demonstrates evident urban expansion trends, albeit with uneven development. The urban area of the economic belt has expanded from 1020.29 km<sup>2</sup> to 3826.87 km<sup>2</sup>, the expansion direction of each city is different, and the center of gravity of the economic belt has moved to the southeast. (3) During the period from 2008 to 2020, the entire economic belt experienced a situation where the urban expansion rate was lower than the population growth rate, and there was an imbalance in urban development (LCRPGR = 0.33). However, looking ahead to the period from 2020 to 2030, the average LCRPGR for the entire economic belt shows a significant upward trend, approaching the ideal state of sustainable development (LCRPGR ≈ 1). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52324665701345148bc67e5b1d3810ae2023-11-10T15:11:23ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922023-11-011521520910.3390/rs15215209Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1Shuyue Liu0Yan Yan1Baoqing Hu2Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf, Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, ChinaKey Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf, Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, ChinaKey Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf, Ministry of Education, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, ChinaQuantitative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and forecasting of the progress towards SDG11.3.1 are of great significance for the promotion of sustainable urban development. This study employed the spatiotemporal normalized threshold method to extract urban built-up areas in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt based on night-time light data and investigated the intricate patterns of urban expansion from 2000 to 2020. Then, the historical trends of the SDG11.3.1 indicators within the economic belt were evaluated, and future urban built-up areas were predicted based on the SSP1 scenario. The results indicate the following: (1) Built-up area extraction has an overall accuracy that exceeds 97% and G-mean values that all surpass 82%, indicating the high accuracy of the method. (2) The Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt demonstrates evident urban expansion trends, albeit with uneven development. The urban area of the economic belt has expanded from 1020.29 km<sup>2</sup> to 3826.87 km<sup>2</sup>, the expansion direction of each city is different, and the center of gravity of the economic belt has moved to the southeast. (3) During the period from 2008 to 2020, the entire economic belt experienced a situation where the urban expansion rate was lower than the population growth rate, and there was an imbalance in urban development (LCRPGR = 0.33). However, looking ahead to the period from 2020 to 2030, the average LCRPGR for the entire economic belt shows a significant upward trend, approaching the ideal state of sustainable development (LCRPGR ≈ 1).https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/21/5209urbanizationurban expansionSDG11.3.1night-time light dataPearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt |
| spellingShingle | Shuyue Liu Yan Yan Baoqing Hu Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 Remote Sensing urbanization urban expansion SDG11.3.1 night-time light data Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt |
| title | Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 |
| title_full | Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 |
| title_fullStr | Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 |
| title_short | Satellite Monitoring of the Urban Expansion in the Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt and the Progress towards SDG11.3.1 |
| title_sort | satellite monitoring of the urban expansion in the pearl river xijiang economic belt and the progress towards sdg11 3 1 |
| topic | urbanization urban expansion SDG11.3.1 night-time light data Pearl River–Xijiang Economic Belt |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/21/5209 |
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