Vegetation and Population Density in Urban and Suburban Areas城市和郊区的植被和人口密度.pptVIP

Vegetation and Population Density in Urban and Suburban Areas in the U.S.A. Francesca Pozzi Center for International Earth Science Information Network Columbia University New York, USA Christopher Small Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University New York, USA Objectives Characterize urban areas based on demographic and physical characteristics: Population Density Vegetation Abundance Examine consistency of relationship between the two variables in the USA Compare with existing land cover classification (USGS) Can this help us find alternative classification systems for urban areas? Case Study: The USA 6 cities with different geographic location, physical environment and urban growth dynamics Data: Population Density 1990 US Census Bureau population counts at the block level (Spatial and tabular data) Density in people/km2 Data reprojected to UTM, Rasterized to 30 m, Co-registred to Landsat Data: Vegetation Abundance Landsat TM data, circa 1990 Spectral reflectance of many urban areas can be described as linear mixing of: Low albedo High albedo Vegetation Linear un-mixing Fraction images showing areal % of each endmember within each pixel (0 to 1) Validation with IKONOS, accuracy within 10% Data: USGS National Land Cover Dataset Based on Landsat TM data Nominal-1992 acquisitions Modified Anderson LULC Classification System Selected 3 “Developed” classes: Low Intensity Residential High Intensity Residential Commercial/Industrial/Transportation Analysis Analysis of population distributions across the entire U.S. Demographic Classification Quantification of the relationship between population density and vegetation fraction Bivariate distributions Marginal distributions Comparison with USGS NLCD Classes Distributions of areal extent of each USGS class as a function of population density and vegetation fraction Population Density Distribution in the U.S. Multimodal Distribution Modes are: Rural: pop. dens. 100 Suburban: 100 pop.dens. 10,000 Urban