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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH  2013, Vol. 33 Issue (5): 1577-1585    DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2013.00224
Ecology and Economics     
Identification and Extraction of Historical Agricultural Irrigation Canals in Lücheng Cultivated Land of Northwestern China
HU Ning-ke1,2, LI Xin1, GUO Ming1
1.Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
2.College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Abstract  

Irrigation is an absolute requirement for historical agricultural development in arid regions. Canals can be seen as the most important water delivery facilities in irrigation systems, and they are one of the main features of agricultural civilization in arid regions. The ancient Lücheng reclamation area was the largest cultivated area of the ancient Juyan Oasis in the downstream of the Heihe River Basin, and there were many remaining relics of past human activities related to farming between nebkhas and sand dunes there. In this study, based on historical documents and archaeological reports, combined with high-resolution remotely sensed data and canal field investigation data, historical agricultural irrigation canals in the study area were identified according to the linear and texture features of the artificial canals appeared in the remote sensing images. It was found that there were large-scale irrigation systems developed to support the flourishingly human agricultural activities in the study area during the historical periods. Furthermore, it also showed that there were similarities for the agricultural irrigation methods between historical agricultural irrigation canals and the modern irrigation system of arid regions in China. Spatial distribution of the agricultural irrigation canals with fine-scale is the direct evidence of the human agricultural activities during the past times in the ancient oasis, which could play an important role in the study of past water conservancy facilities and regional environmental change.

Key words:  irrigation      canal      agricultural activity      remote sensing      ancient Juyan Oasis      historical period     
Received:  08 May 2013      Published:  17 May 2013
ZTFLH:  TP753  
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HU Ning-ke1,2, LI Xin1, GUO Ming1. Identification and Extraction of Historical Agricultural Irrigation Canals in Lücheng Cultivated Land of Northwestern China. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2013, 33(5): 1577-1585.

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