Analysis of Jiangsu Tidal Flats Reclamation from 1974 to 2012 Using Remote Sensing.pdf

China Ocean Eng., Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 143 – 154 © 2015 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society DOI 10.1007/s13344-015-0011-5, ISSN 0890-5487 Analysis of Jiangsu Tidal Flats Reclamation from 1974 to 2012 Using * Remote Sensing a a, b, c, 1 a ZHAO Sai-shuai (赵赛帅) , LIU Yong-xue (刘永学) , LI Man-chun (李满春) , a a a SUN Chao (孙 超) , ZHOU Min-xi (周旻曦) and ZHANG He-xia (张荷霞) a Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China b Collaborative Innovation Center for the South China Sea Studies, Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China c Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China (Received 12 August 2013; received revised form 3 January 2014; accepted 22 February 2014) ABSTRACT Jiangsu has the most abundant tidal flat resources among China’s coastal provinces. To ease the conflict between the growing population and shrinking usable land and to promote regional sustainable development, large-scale coastal reclamation development activities have been performed in Jiangsu Province since 1949. T