Abstract:Extensive attention has been given to the interrelationship between the boundary characteristics and the fragmentation process of landscape. This paper employs the landscape maps obtained through satellite remote sensing data (TM images) in 1987 and 1997 respectively to explore the hypothesis that the landscape fragmentation process will result in an increase in the boundary number of landscape, particularly the number of short ones. The study covers four aspects: (1) 20 square samples of 200×200 cells are ...