Land Leveling with Modern Machinery for the Implementation of Agricultural Activities in Greece

Incorporating modem and advanced technology （various electronic devices） to excavational machinery led to become more efficient, better quality and cost effective. The continuous development of equipment is also very important in the earth moving procedures which require significant time and expense to achieve the so-called ＂precision agriculture＂ or rather ＂precise management of agricultural inputs＂. One of the ＂precision agricultural＂ works is the land leveling. In recent years, land leveling is done with the use of a scraper （blade） mounted on the agricultural tractor. An electronic system controls the height of the blade automatically, without any operator intervention. In this paper, the field efficiency of the tractor MF6290, of 135 Hp horsepower, is calculated with a leveling blade of 4 m width, in the land leveling of rice cultivation, and in the rotation of different crops in different land preparation conditions （initial and final slope） in the area of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The raw data revealed that the performance of the tractor ranged from 0.402 to 0.82 lha/h, on a slope 0%, while for surfaces with different initial and final slope, it ranged from 0.107 to 0.118 ha/h.

Layering Precision Land Leveling and Furrow Irrigated Raised Bed Planting: Productivity and Input Use Efficiency of Irrigated Bread Wheat in Indo-Gangetic Plains

Stagnating yield and declining input use efficiency in irrigated wheat of the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) coupled with diminishing availability of water for agriculture is a major concern of food security in South Asia. The objective of our study was to establish an understanding of how wheat yield and input use efficiency can be improved and how land leveling and crop establishment practices can be modified to be more efficient in water use through layering of precision-conservation crop management techniques. The “precision land leveling with raised bed” planting can be used to improve crop yield, water and nutrient use efficiency over the existing “traditional land leveling with flat” planting practices. We conducted a field experiment during 2002-2004 at Modipuram, India to quantify the benefits of alternate land leveling (precision land leveling) and crop establishment (furrow irrigated raised bed planting) techniques alone or in combination (layering precision-conservation) in terms of crop yield, water savings, and nutrient use efficiency of wheat production in IGP. The wheat yield was about 16.6% higher with nearly 50% less irrigation water with layering precision land leveling and raised bed planting compared to traditional practices (traditional land leveling with flat planting). The agronomic (AE) and uptake efficiency (UE) of N, P and K were significantly improved under precision land leveling with raised bed planting technique compared to other practices.

Effect and economic benefit of precision seeding and laser land leveling for winter wheat in the middle of China

Rapid socio-economic changes in China,such as land conversion and urbanization,are creating new scopes for the application of precision agriculture(PA).An experiment to assess the economic benefits of two precision agriculture methods was applied for one year–precision seeding and precision seeding with land leveling.Whilst the results for this were positive,of itself it did not provide evidence of longer terms gains.The costs of land leveling are accrued in a single year but the benefits could carry over into subsequent years.Thus,in this case if the PA method provides carry over benefits to future years,the economic assessment would incorrectly assign all the costs to a single year of benefits i.e.the benefit-cost ratio would be underestimated.To gauge whether there was carry over benefits in future years we looked at NDVI and GUI as proxies for future year benefits.For the single year experiment,our results showed that:(1)Winter wheat yield was increased 23.2%through the integration of precision seeding and laser leveling technologies.(2)Both the single technology and the integrated technologies significant reduced the concentration of soil ammonium nitrogen at the depths of 60 cm;(3)The benefit/cost ratio's of the treatments exceeded that of the baseline by approximately 10%which translated to an increase of several hundred US$per hectare.The NDVI analysis showed that the effect of laser land leveling could last to the next two years.When considering the multi-year impact of land leveling,the benefit/cost ratio of PSLL will increase to 23.5%and 22.9%with and without laser land leveling subsidies.Making clear the eco-nomic benefits of using PA technologies will likely promote application of the technologies in the region.

A Study of the Driving Force Model Revealing Changes in Land Utilization Level Based on 3S Technologies ——The Example of Yuanmou, Yunnan, China

This paper introduced the theory and approaches of building driving forcemodels revealing the changes in land utilization level by integrating RS, GPS, and GIS technologiesbased on the example of Yuanmou County of Yunnan Province. We first created the land utilizationtype database, natural driving forces for land utilization database, and human driving forces forland utilization database. Then we obtained the dependent and the independent variables of changesin land utilization level by exploring various data. Lastly we screened major factors affectingchanges in land utilization level by using the powerful spatial correlation analysis and maincomponent analysis module of GIS and obtained a multivariable linear regression model of thechangesin land utilization level by using GIS spatial regression analysis module.

STUDY ON METHODS OF LAND USE DYNAMIC MONITORING AT COUNTY LEVEL──Taking Dehui County, Jilin Province for Example

Remote sensing technique has played an important role in land use dynamic monitoring, but as for the land use dynamic monitoring at county level, traditional remote sensing methods such as satellite imagery visual interpretation and computer classification can not meet its demand for accuracy. The result of 1:10 000 land use investigation map has high accuracy, but this method can not be used to dynamically monitor the land use because of its big expenses, long period and difficulty in updating data. In this paper, the characteristics of physiognomy, climate and the status of land use in Dehui County are taken into consideration and a set of method, which takes use of 3S techniques and applies to Northeast China Plain, is come up with. When the land use type of a land parcel changed as a whole, the date updating can be make by changing its land type ID in the attribute table in a GIS. When the land use type of an irregular area changed, GPS receivers are used to position its border. This set of method is characteristic of high accuracy and low expenses. It gets the information of land use change timely and can be used to dynamically monitor the land use. .

Development of Global Cropland Agreement Level Analysis by Integrating Pixel Similarity of Recent Global Land Cover Datasets

Global cropland monitoring is important when considering tactical strategies for achieving food sustainability. Different global land cover (GLC) datasets providing cropland information have already been published and they are used in many applications. The different data input methods, classification techniques, class definitions and production years among the different GLC datasets make them all independently useful sources of information. This study attempted to produce a cropland agreement level (CAL) analysis based on the integration of several cropland datasets to more accurately estimate cropland area distribution. Estimating cropland area and how it has changed on a national level was done by converting the level of cropland agreement into percentages with an existing cropland fraction map. A pre-analysis showed that the four GLC datasets used in the 2005 and 2010 groups had similar year input data acquisitions. Therefore, we placed these four datasets (GlobCover, MODIS LC, GLCNMO and ESACCI LC) into 2005 and 2010 year-groups and selected them to process dataset integration through a CRISP approach. The results of this process proposed four agreement levels for this CAL analysis, and the model correlation was converted into percentage values. The cropland estimate results from the CAL analysis were observed along with FAO data statistics and showed the highest accuracy, with a 0.70 and 0.71 regression value for 2005 and 2010 respectively. In the cropland area change analysis, this CAL change analysis had the highest level of accuracy when describing the total size of cropland area change from 2005 and 2010 when compared to other individual original GLC datasets.

The Land Subsidence and Relative Sea Level Rise in Chinese Delta Areas

Based on some experts’ research effort, the problems of land subsidence and relative sea level rise in three Chinese delta areas (Huanghe, Changjiang and Zhujiang Delta) are analyzed and discussed in this paper. The authors’ opinion is that the land subsidence is mainly induced by human activity and has made the greater contributions to the relative sea level rise and become one of the geological hazards in these areas. In Tianjin and Shanghai areas where had ever existed serious land subsidence problem, due to the positive and effective control methods, the ratio of man-induced land subsidence to relative sea level rise decreased from 80%-90% in 1960s-1970s to less than 60% at present. But it is estimated that in the next tens of years this ratio will still be considerable. So human being must keep its eyes on this phenomenon and take more positive countermeasures to control the land subsidence.

The monitoring and analysis of the coastal lowland subsidence in the southern Hangzhou Bay with an advanced time-series InSAR method

Time-series InSAR analysis（e.g., permanent scatterers（PSInSAR）） has been proven as an effective technology in monitoring ground deformation over urban areas. However, it is a big challenge to apply this technology in coastal regions due to the lack of man-made targets. An distributed scatterers interferometric synthetic aperture radar（DSInSAR） is developed to solve the problem of insufficient samples and low reliability in monitoring coastal lowland subsidence, by applying a spatially adaptive filter and an eigendecomposition algorithm to estimating the optimal phase of statistically homogeneous distributed scatterers（DSs）. Twenty-four scenes of COSMO-Sky Med images acquired between 2013 and 2015 are used to retrieve the land subsidence over the Shangyu District on south coast of the Hangzhou Bay, Zhejiang Province, China. The spatial pattern of the land subsidence obtained by the PS-InSAR and the DSInSAR coincides with each other, but the density of the DSs is three point five times higher than the permanent scatterers（PSs）. Validated by precise levelling data over the same period, the DSInSAR method achieves an accuracy of ±5.0 mm/a which is superior to the PS-InSAR with±5.5 mm/a. The land subsidence in the Shangyu District is mainly distributed in the urban areas, industrial towns and land reclamation zones, with a maximum subsidence rate -30.2 mm/a. The analysis of geological data, field investigation and historical reclamation data indicates that human activities and natural compaction of reclamation material are major causes of the detected land subsidence. The results demonstrate that the DSInSAR method has a great potential in monitoring the coastal lowland subsidence and can be used to further investigate subsidence-related environmental issues in coastal regions.

Land subsidence monitoring by D-InSAR technique

Nowadays, the researches of using Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (D-InSAR) tech- nique to monitor the land subsidence are mainly on how to qualitatively analyze the subsidence areas and values, but the analysis of subsidence process and mechanism are insufficient. In order to resolve these problems, 6 scenes of ERS1/2 images captured during 1995 and 2000 in a certain place of Jiangsu province were selected to obtain the subsidence and velocities in three time segments by ''two-pass'' D- InSAR method. Then the relationships among distributions of pumping wells, exploitation quantity of groundwater, and confined water levels were studied and the subsidence mechanism was systematically analyzed. The results show that using D-InSAR technique to monitor the deformation of large area can obtain high accuracies, the disadvantages of classical observation methods can be remedied and there is a linear relationship among the velocities of land subsidence, the water level and the exploitation quantity.

The Relative Impact of Regional Scale Land Cover Change and Increasing CO_2 over China

A series of 17-yr equilibrium simulations using the NCAR COM3 (T42resolution) were performed to investigate the regional scale impacts of land cover change andincreasing CO_2 over China. Simulations with natural and current land cover at CO_2 levels of 280,355, 430, and 505 ppmv were conducted. Results show statistically significant changes in majorclimate fields (e.g. temperature and surface wind speed) on a 15-yr average following land coverchange. We also found increases in the maximum temperature and in the diurnal temperature range dueto land cover change. Increases in CO_2 affect both the maximum and minimum temperature so thatchanges in the diurnal range are small. Both land cover change and CO_2 change also impact thefrequency distribution of precipitation with increasing CO_2 tending to lead to more intenseprecipitation and land cover change leading to less intense precipitation―indeed, the impact ofland cover change typically had the opposite effect versus the impacts of CO_2. Our results providesupport for the inclusion of future land cover change scenarios in long-term transitory climatemodelling experiments of the 21st Century. Our results also support the inclusion of land surfacemodels that can represent future land cover changes resulting from an ecological response to naturalclimate variability or increasing CO_2. Overall, we show that land cover change can have asignificant impact on the regional scale climate of China, and that regionally, this impact is of asimilar magnitude to increases in CO_2 of up to about 430 ppmv. This means that that the impact ofland cover change must be accounted for in detection and attribution studies over China.

Planning and Design of Rural Land Renovation in Arid Area of Northwest China--A Case Study of Lanjiabao,Shaanxi

Taking Lanjiabao,Shaanxi as an example,the land renovation methods for areas with severe drought,water loss and soil erosion were discussed from the planning and design of land leveling,irrigation and drainage engineering,field road engineering,soil and water conservation and other aspects to fundamentally improve the production conditions of local agriculture,thereby effectively inhibiting soil erosion,reducing the impact of wind and sand,greatly enhancing the ability to withstand natural disasters,improving the natural productivity of farmland,and enhancing adjustment capacity. The planning and design of this case project can provide reference for land renovation activities in similar areas.

A Study of Current Land Use in the Urban Area of Ma'anshan City

With the acceleration of urbanization,urban development poses a growing demand for land.China's national conditions of a large population with relatively little arable land require us to intensively use land,and more and more departments have been aware of the importance of intensive urban land use.The study on the current land use in the urban area of Ma'anshan City,is not only conducive to adjustment of land use layout and structure as well as urban ecological construction,but also of guiding significance to the economical and intensive land use in Ma'anshan City.This paper first describes the natural,social and economic situation of Ma'anshan's urban area,then analyzes the land use structure,layout and problems,and finally puts forth the recommendations for improving current land use situation in the urban area of Ma'anshan City.

Landsat新型热红外地表温度产品与MODIS地表温度产品的交互对比

美国地质调查局(USGS)2020年12月正式发布了基于Landsat热红外光谱数据生产的2级地表温度产品(Landsat Collection 2 Level-2 surface temperature,LC2L2ST),但目前还鲜有该地表温度产品的相关研究报道。由于美国地质调查局已宣布自2022年开始将不提供除该产品之外的其他地表温度数据,因此有必要对该产品进行适时的评估。在同类遥感卫星产品中,MODIS地表温度产品的质量最被广大用户认可,应用也最为广泛,因此首次将Landsat新型热红外地表温度产品与MODIS地表温度产品进行交互对比,以评估新产品与MODIS地表温度产品的一致性。分别选取了我国的不同地区(福州、太湖、银川、敦煌)作为试验区,以20对同日过空的LC2L2ST与MODIS地表温度影像为数据源进行交互对比。影像涵盖植被、水体、建筑、荒漠等地物以及不同的季节。在试验区影像上选取一系列均质样区(ROI),通过各样区的地表温度均值散点进行拟合回归分析,研究二者地表温度间的差异及定量关系,并提出彼此转换的模型。结果表明,Landsat地表温度新产品与MODIS地表温度产品具有很高的相关性,4个试验区的决定系数(R^(2))皆大于0.98,集成4个试验区的总R^(2)也接近0.98;但LC2L2ST比MODIS的地表温度平均高0.90℃(RMSE=2.29℃)。分析发现,二者地表温度数据间的差异与其在空间分辨率、观测角度、地物类型和季节的不同有关。从不同地物和季节来看,LC2L2ST在晚秋和冬季略低于MODIS的地表温度,而在夏季极端高温的城镇、荒漠地区则明显高于MODIS的地表温度,且偏差可近7℃。总的看来,Landsat新型地表温度产品与MODIS同类产品的相关性显著,但在夏季的城市和沙漠地区的差异较大,因此,LC2L2ST新产品在夏季高温季节的适用性仍有待进一步基于地面实测温度的验证。鉴于两种地表温度数据产品仍存在着一定差距,因此二者如要协同使用,需要进行转换。本研究基于4个试验区的560个ROI样区构建了二者地表温度间的转换方程,并通过验证发现,经转换后的两数据差异性得到大幅缩小。因此,必要的数据转换有利于二者数据的协同使用,可为长时间序列的地表温度变化监测提供连续的遥感数据。

联合Landsat影像和ICESat测高数据估计青海湖湖泊水量变化

湖泊既是陆地水资源的重要储蓄场所,也是区域和全球水文循环系统的重要组成部分,其水量波动对气候变化较为敏感。为了掌握湖泊面积、水位和水量的变化规律,借助1988-2018年Landsat TM/ETM/OLI影像和归一化差异水体指数NDWI(normalized difference water index)提取青海湖湖泊水域面积;利用ICESat-GLAS(ice,cloud,and land elevation satellite-geoscience laser altimeter system)测高数据提取青海湖湖泊水位变化,并结合观测资料检验陆地GLAS光斑脚点高程和湖泊水位的估测精度。根据湖泊面积与水位、水量与水位的关系,构建1988-2018年青海湖湖泊面积-水位-水量波动时变序列,并探讨湖泊水位、面积、水量的年内和年际变化特征。结果表明:GLAS光斑脚点高程与高程实测值的标准误差为0.14 m,与SRTM3高程标准误差为0.26 m;1988-2018年青海湖年均水位和水量总体上呈增加趋势,其中年均水位最低值出现于2004年,平均水位为(3193.0±0.16)m,湖泊面积为(4190±13)km^2;与1988年年均水位相比,2018年青海湖年均水位上升了(1.93±0.22)m,湖泊年均面积扩张了(197.75±6.3)km^2,湖泊水量增加了(8.93±0.12)km^3。

Correlation between Urban Land Change Process and Socioeconomic Development since the 1980s in Jiangsu Province

Studying the process and characteristics of urban land change in different phases of urbanization and different economic development is much important for understanding urban land change and management at a macro level. Taking the example of Jiangsu Province, the present paper studied the correlation between urban land change process and socioeconomic development from 1981 to 2003 on the basis of statistical data. The results showed the following three aspects. First, urban land area has changed periodically and the research duration can be divided into two periods: from 1981 to 1994 and from 1995 to 2003. In each period, the changing trend is the same, i.e. slow at first and then quick. Studying from the comprehensive change status, the characteristic of fluctuant change is significant with three acute change pinnacles in 1988, 1991 and 2002 which were corresponded to turning point years of economic development phases of Jiangsu Province respectively. Second, the synchronization between urban land change and urbanization level change is not strict. With the evolution of urbanization phases, the change pace of urbanization level increased remarkably, but urban land change rate did not increase significantly accordingly. Third, the area of urban land has exponentially increased with the increase of per capita GDP. In different economic development levels classified by per capital GDP, land resource cost for economic development is different, respectively 29.01 hm2, 26.34 hm2, 26.22 hm2, and 11.14 hm2 for the increase of 100 million RMB GDP when the per capita GDP is under 1000, 1000–2000, 2000–5000 and over 5000 RMB.

高潜水位矿区土地利用和碳储量时空变化规律与预测

高潜水位矿区采矿活动及城镇化发展会导致土地利用类型明显变化,进而影响矿区的固碳能力。采用潘谢矿区2002-2021年5期土地利用数据,利用FLUS(Future Land Use Simulation)模型,选取了采矿、社会经济和气候环境等方面数据作为驱动因子,分别预测了自然发展和生态保护两种情景下2028年土地利用变化,再结合InVEST(Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs)模型,计算了潘谢矿区2002-2021年的历史碳储量以及2028年不同情景下的未来碳储量,并对潘谢矿区碳储量的时空变化特征进行了分析。结果表明:(1)2002-2021年潘谢矿区土地利用变化表现为耕地不断减少,湿地和建筑用地持续增加,其中耕地减少了147.93 km^(2),湿地和建筑用地分别增加了71.01 km^(2)和75.76 km^(2)。在此期间,潘谢矿区碳储量减少了1.62×10^(5)t,减少幅度为3.83%,其中在2018-2021年碳储量下降最快。(2)预测结果显示,2028年2种情景下研究区内土地利用变化均为湿地和建筑用地持续增加,耕地不断减少。但相较于自然发展情景,生态保护情景下矿区内耕地受到保护,面积有所增加,湿地和建筑用地的增长减缓。与2021年相比,自然发展情景下的碳储量减少了0.74×10^(5)t,生态保护情景下的碳储量减少了0.53×10^(5)t。研究结果表明,受采煤沉陷和城镇发展影响,沉陷湿地和建筑用地扩张导致耕地减少是碳储量下降的主要原因,采取生态保护措施能够在一定程度上减缓碳储量的下降。

Dynamic Change of Arable Land Ecological Security: A Case Study of Panyu District, Guangzhou City

Ecological security of arable land is closely related to grain security and social stability. This paper took 12 typical indexes from the aspects of ecological pressure, state and response of arable land considering natural, social and economic conditions to construct the ecological index system of arable land in Panyu District, Guangzhou City, and adopted objective weighting method and comprehensive analysis method to analyze the dynamic change of ecological security and security level of arable land in the study area. The results showed that ecological security pressure value and response value of arable land in Panyu District from 2008 to 2013 increased and the overall ecological security level was low, manifesting the level of "sensitive–risky–sensitive". Specifi cally, ecological security of arable land in 2008 was sensitive, risky from 2009 to 2011, and the security level rose to the sensitive level again in 2012 and 2013. Ecological restoration and rebuilding of arable land should be enhanced, and ecological security early warning system should be established by protecting quantity and quality of arable land, so as to protect arable land resources effectively, and promote sustainable development of arable land.

西辽河平原地下水失衡及其与土地利用的互馈关系

西辽河平原是我国北方重要的生态屏障,但是生态环境脆弱。2004年以来农田灌溉用水增加,地下水水位持续下降。为查明区域地下水失衡、生态效应及其影响因素,开展了西辽河平原地下水水位统测和长期监测,采用空间相关性分析、水均衡分析、土地利用转移矩阵、对地下水水位变化贡献度分析等方法,分析了区域地下水均衡状况及其与土地利用的互馈关系。结果表明:西辽河平原2020年地下水水位比2004年平均下降2.23 m,地下水储存量年均减少10.90×10^(8) m^(3);平原中部农业集中灌溉区地下水水位下降幅度较大,尤其通辽科尔沁区地下水水位下降最为明显;西辽河平原地下水开采量对地下水水位下降的贡献度为33%,科尔沁区超过50%;地下水水位下降区水位埋深从4.71 m下降至8.34 m,导致草地退化,面积减少,覆盖度下降;西辽河平原地下水可持续开采量为24.28×10^(8) m^(3)/a。用于农业灌溉的地下水开采量增大是造成地下水水位下降的主要原因,为防止地下水水位持续下降,提出了提高节水灌溉能力,调整种植结构、引入外源水及压缩地下水开采量等综合治理建议。该研究成果可为区域农业种植规划、地下水管理与保护提供技术支撑。

治土新政与企业可持续发展:来自“土十条”的经验证据

国务院颁布的《土壤污染防治行动计划》(亦称“土十条”)作为中国土壤环境保护领域的顶层设计,有助于激励重污染企业参与土壤污染预防与治理。不同于一般的土壤污染治理政策,“土十条”是中国土壤污染防治领域长时期的工作纲领,旨在用制度保障土壤环境质量、严控新增污染,因而具有着重预防而轻治理的本质,这一本质特征可能会使“土十条”在微观层面的可持续整治效果研究得出不一样的结论。该研究选取2013—2020年中国土壤环境污染重点监管的A股上市公司为样本,运用双重差分法检验了“土十条”政策实施对企业可持续发展的影响效果及机制。研究发现:“土十条”显著促进了企业可持续发展,这得益于“土十条”的风险管控理念,但这种促进作用受到地区产业结构水平的反向调节,第三产业比重越大的地区,“土十条”对当地企业可持续发展的促进作用越有限;进一步研究的实证结果表明,地方政府土地财政机制和企业现金防御机制是“土十条”发挥促进作用的重要渠道,同时,“土十条”对企业可持续发展的促进作用在国有企业、大规模企业以及环境规制强度更高的地区更为明显。该研究从企业可持续发展的视角补充了“土十条”实施效果的研究,明确了重污染企业在土壤污染防治领域的主体作用,为形成政府主导与企业担责的土壤污染防治体系提供了经验证据,也为强化企业责任认定和土壤污染治理指明了方向。

Environmental problems in coastal zone of Chin──sea-level rise and groundwater table decline

This paper concerns two important environmental problems in China's coastal zone, i.e.,Sea Level Rise (SLR) and Groundwater Table Decline, as the response to climatic chanes/globalwarming due to greenhouse effect. on the basis of possible twacts of these two problems on theregional natural, environmental and social systems, some response strategies were advised.