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eISSN: 2083-5906
ISSN: 1230-1485
ISSN: 1230-1485
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Monitoring of Temporal and Spatial Changes
for the Ecological Environment of Coal Resource
Cities Based on Remote Sensing
˗ A Case Study of Zoucheng City in China
1
School of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, China
2
College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
3
Institute of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou China
Submission date: 2024-12-27
Final revision date: 2025-02-19
Acceptance date: 2025-04-06
Online publication date: 2025-06-24
Corresponding author
KEYWORDS
Zoucheng cityregional ecological environmentrandom forestremote sensing ecological indexspatiotemporal changes
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
The excessive exploitation of mineral resources adversely affects the regional ecological
environment. Therefore, the timely assessment of changes in ecological environmental quality
is crucial for the sustainable development and planning of coal resource-based cities. This study aims
to explore an evaluation method for monitoring ecological environmental quality in coal resource-based
cities. Specifically, we first built a comprehensive remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) based on
four ecological indicators extracted from Landsat images in Zoucheng City. Subsequently, we combined
the land use/land cover (LULC) data yielded from Landsat satellite images using the random forest
algorithm with the time series RSEI data to analyze the spatiotemporal change characteristics of the
ecological environment in Zoucheng City. The findings are summarized as follows: The mean values
of the RSEI for the four periods (2006, 2011, 2016, and 2022) in Zoucheng City were 0.4501, 0.4562,
0.6417, and 0.5822, respectively. The mean RSEI increased by 40.66% from 2011 to 2016, demonstrating
a significant improvement in the ecological environment. However, the mean RSEI decreased by
9.27% from 2016 to 2022 in Zoucheng City, indicating a decline in ecological environmental quality.
This study can serve as a reference for understanding the ecological environment of other coal resourcebased
cities.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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