title: [Recognition of landscape characteristic scale based on two-dimension wavelet analysis].
abstract: Three wavelet bases, i. e., Haar, Daubechies, and Symlet, were chosen to analyze the validity of two-dimension wavelet analysis in recognizing the characteristic scales of the urban, peri-urban, and rural landscapes of Shenyang. Owing to the transform scale of two-dimension wavelet must be the integer power of 2, some characteristic scales cannot be accurately recognized. Therefore, the pixel resolution of images was resampled to 3, 3.5, 4, and 4.5 m to densify the scale in analysis. It was shown that two-dimension wavelet analysis worked effectively in checking characteristic scale. Haar, Daubechies, and Symle were the optimal wavelet bases to the peri-urban landscape, urban landscape, and rural landscape, respectively. Both Haar basis and Symlet basis played good roles in recognizing the fine characteristic scale of rural landscape and in detecting the boundary of peri-urban landscape. Daubechies basis and Symlet basis could be also used to detect the boundary of urban landscape and rural landscape, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China. yunitongxing1984@sina.com
authors.forename: Yan-Ni
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xing-Yuan
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Xiao-Yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002681:China; D002958:City Planning; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004779:Environment Design; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D012424:Rural Population; D058067:Wavelet Analysis; D014894:Weights and Measures