A landslide susceptibility evaluation is vital for disaster management and development planning in the Yangtze River Three Gorges Reservoir Area. In this study, with the support of remote sensing and Geographic Information System, 4 factor groups comprising 10 separate subfactors of landslide-related data layers were selected to establish a susceptibility evaluation model based on the back-propagation neural network including slope, aspect, plan curvature, strata and lithology, distance to faults, land use/land cover, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index, distance from roads, and effect of rivers. During model development, a three-layered interconnected neural network structure of 10 (input layer) × 20 (hidden layer) × 1 (output layer) was used for evaluating the landslide susceptibility in Guojiaba. At the same time, a back-propagation algorithm was applied to calculate the weights between the input layer and the hidden layer and between the hidden layer and the output layer. The results showed that the effect of slope has the highest weight value (0.2051), which is more than two times that of the other factors, followed by strata and lithology (0.1213) and then the effect of rivers (0.1201). At the end of the susceptibility evaluation, the area was divided into four zones such as very high, high, moderate and low susceptibility. For verification, the receiver operating characteristic curve for the back-propagation neural network-derived landslide susceptibility evaluation model was drawn, and the results showed that the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.8790 and the prediction accuracy was 88%. Furthermore, the results obtained from this article were then verified by comparing with the existing landslide historical data and multiple field-verified results. Lastly, the landslide susceptibility map will help decision makers in risk management, site selection, site planning, and the design of control engineering.

Dayaoshan, as an important metal ore-producing area in China, is faced with the dilemma of resource depletion due to long-term exploitation. In this paper, remote sensing methods are used to circle the favorable metallogenic areas and find new ore points for Gulong. Firstly, vegetation interference was removed by using mixed pixel decomposition method with hyperplane and genetic algorithm (GA) optimization; then, altered mineral distribution information was extracted based on principal component analysis (PCA) and support vector machine (SVM) methods; thirdly, the favorable areas of gold mining in Gulong was delineated by using the ant colony algorithm (ACA) optimization SVM model to remove false altered minerals; and lastly, field surveys verified that the extracted alteration mineralization information is correct and effective. The results show that the mineral alteration extraction method proposed in this paper has certain guiding significance for metallogenic prediction by remote sensing.

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The goal of this study is to investigate the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of LULC and to explore the impact of climate variability and LULC change on regional NPP in Jianghan Plain from 2000 to 2010 based on the CASA model, remote sensing data sets, meteorological data and LULC data. The results are summarized as follows: (1) the significant geographical variations are characterized mainly by the transformation from farmland to wetlands and constructive land. (2) The highest yield of NPP was 557.37 gC/m² in 2007, and the lowest yield was 483.45 gC/m² in 2009. (3) NPP spatial distribution has obvious uneven characteristics on the regional scale. (4) The correlation analysis shows that the correlation coefficient between annual total NPP and the annual precipitation and annual temperature was –0.4471 and 0.6296, respectively. Finally, the results may provide scientific information for investigating the influence of climate variability and LULC change on regional NPP in China.