Karst rocky desertification remote sensing monitoring by integrating land use diagnoses in southeast of Yunnan province

Karst rocky desertification is one of the serious environment problems in southwest of China. In this study, a typical county with karst rocky desertification which located in Southeast of Yunnan province is selected as a work area at first. Based on the datum collection about land use status and field verification surveying in study area, the technique of remote sensing image processing and GIS spatial analysis was integrated used to monitor the karst rocky desertification status and got its information in different degree. Analysis for karst rocky desertification spatial distributing, the main result is that there is more amount proportion of karst rocky desertification land cover in case study area and these large numbers patches of karst rocky desertification mosaic beset in the different land use types, such as forest, plantation and artificial town or other infrastructure building. So it is stringent need to deepen research the karst rocky desertification development and its spatial expand. Another result include that remote sensing monitoring for the karst rocky desertification is one of the important advance technique method, but it also need to fuse more another assistant information according to the actual condition in case study area, for example, the land use status in quo is a good means to assistant remote sensing monitoring karst rocky desertification by spatial restrict effect.