Title
Land-Use Carbon Emissions Estimation for the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Using 1994-2016 Landsat Image Data.
Abstract
The amount and growth rate of carbon emissions have been accelerated on a global scale since the industrial revolution (1800), especially in recent decades. This has resulted in a significant influence on the natural environment and human societies. Therefore, carbon emission reduction receives continuously increasing public attention and has long been under debate. In this study, we made use of the land-use specific carbon emission coefficients from previous studies and estimated the land-use carbon emissions and carbon intensities of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA)-which consists of 26 eastern Chinese cities-from Landsat image data and socio-economic statistics in 1995, 2005, and 2015. In addition, spatial autocorrelation models including both global and local Moran's I were used to analyze the spatial autocorrelation of carbon emissions and carbon intensities. It was found that (1) the YRDUA witnessed a rapidly increasing trend for net carbon emissions and a decreasing trend for carbon intensity over the two decades; (2) the spatial differences in carbon intensity had gradually narrowed, but were large in carbon emissions and had gradually increased; and (3) the carbon emissions in 2005 and 2015 had significant spatial autocorrelations. We concluded that (1) from 1995 to 2015 in the YRDUA, carbon emissions were large for the cities along the Yangtze River and carbon intensities were high for Anhui province's resource-based cities, while both carbon emissions and carbon intensities were small for Zhejiang province's cities; (2) over two decades, the increase in carbon emissions from urban land was approximately twice the increase in urban land area. Our study can provide useful insights into the assignment of carbon reduction tasks within the YRDUA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10091334
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
carbon dioxide,urban agglomeration,Yangtze River Delta,Landsat,land-use,spatial autocorrelation
River delta,Spatial analysis,Physical geography,Carbon dioxide,Spatial Autocorrelations,Remote sensing,Urban agglomeration,Geology,Carbon,Greenhouse gas,Land use
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
9
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yifan Cui100.34
Li Long275.30
longqian chen351.87
Yu Zhang475.49
Liang Cheng500.34
Xisheng Zhou600.34
Xiaoyan Yang795.20