LUCC of Qinghai Lake with Its Neighbourhoods

Study of the land use and land cover change near Qinghai Lake can help us recognize the characteristics of human activities and analysis the evolution law and formative reasons of regional ecological environment in this place. In this paper, we used the established database of land use/land cover change based on three phases remote sensing image data from 2005 to 2014 to analyze the change rate of land use and the structure of land use by using geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis technology. We studied the characteristics of land use change and the regular of spatial distribution of land in the region of Qinghai Lake for nearly a decade. And the results of were listed as follows: From 2005 to 2014, farmland decreased by 0.96%; Woodland decreased by 0.14%; The grass decreased by 1.94%; Construction land increased by 0.27%; Waters decreased by 1.31%; Unused land increased by 4.06%.