Published 2025-07-01
“…In this study, the urban area of Wulingyuan District, China, a Natural World Heritage Site, is taken as the research object.MethodsBased on Landsat remote sensing images at five time nodes between 2000 and 2022, the spatial and temporal characteristics and evolutionary patterns of urban expansion in Wulingyuan are quantitatively investigated and the driving factors are explored using fractal theory, the equal
sector analysis method, partial least squares regression (PLSR), and the standard deviation ellipse.ResultsThe results reveal the following. (1) From 2000 to 2022, urban expansion has undergone four clear stages, namely, medium-speed, low-intensity, low-speed, low-intensity, medium-speed, medium-intensity, and medium-speed, high-intensity. …”
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