Many approaches exist in the field of landuse change study but few of which is suitable for the quantitative analysis A statistical method named as canonical correlation analysis was used in this paper to analyze the...Many approaches exist in the field of landuse change study but few of which is suitable for the quantitative analysis A statistical method named as canonical correlation analysis was used in this paper to analyze the relationship between landuse structure and physical, socioeconomic impacts It was found that geographic factors such as landform and humidity dominated the structure of land use in China in 1990 generally, and that for different regions or different categories of land use, the effet al of physical or human variables might differ I conclude that the statistical method makes a further step in quantitative landuse change study Canonical correlation analysis is very beneficial to the explanation of landuse structure distribution展开更多
文摘Many approaches exist in the field of landuse change study but few of which is suitable for the quantitative analysis A statistical method named as canonical correlation analysis was used in this paper to analyze the relationship between landuse structure and physical, socioeconomic impacts It was found that geographic factors such as landform and humidity dominated the structure of land use in China in 1990 generally, and that for different regions or different categories of land use, the effet al of physical or human variables might differ I conclude that the statistical method makes a further step in quantitative landuse change study Canonical correlation analysis is very beneficial to the explanation of landuse structure distribution
