Research on Changes in Area of Various Land Use Types Based on Markov Model
According to the status map of land use in Wenjiang district of Chengdu city during 2005 ~2010, using Markov model on ArcGis platform , we predicted the area changes of various land use types in this district in the years 2015, 2020 and 2025.The results show that:in the future over ten years, the area of cultivated land will decrease gradually , and the area of urban and rural construction land will increase gradually;in comparison with the area of land use in the year 2010, the area of cultivated land will decrease by 38.12%, and the area of urban and rural construction land will increase by 53.23%in the year 2025.