Over the last 20 years, more than 100,000 land consolidation projects have been carried out around China. Some of them are successful, some of them are failed. For lack of public participation, low reconstruction quality and unreasonable large-scale demolishing of old village, land consolidation are criticized sometimes by the public and media in China. Recently, the situation is changing step ...

Traditionally, potential evaluation methods for farmland consolidation have depended mainly on the experts’ experiences, statistical computations or subjective adjustments. Some biases usually exist in the results. Thus, computer-aided technology has become essential. In this study, an intelligent evaluation system based on a fuzzy decision tree was established, and this system can deal with nu...

The effect of land fragmentation on agriculture has worried policymakers for a long time because it is expected to be a negative effect. Land consolidation policies are frequently implemented to soften the degree of land fragmentation. However, to the authors' knowledge, no study in the dairy sector has empirically analyzed the role of land fragmentation on farm productivity and profits. This s...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing, with its advantages of all-weather coverage, all day/night acquisitions, cloud penetration, and signal independence of the solar illumination angle, can be applied to land cover classification and land consolidation, especially in some regions where optics and infrared remote sensing do not work well. A limitation of its using for land consolidatio...

The chernozem has high productivity, most of which is located in Northeast of China. Considering the restrictions of land use and terrain and meteorological conditions, soil erosion and degradation often result in lower agricultural output than expected. Land consolidation is served to consolidate parcels and to enlarge holdings as well as included provisions such as irrigation, drainage infras...

The area of land consolidation projects are generally small, so remote sensing images used in land cover classification are generally of high resolution. The spectral characteristics of the high-resolution remote sensing data are unstable, while the texture feature is prominent. In view of this issue, this paper study the spatial relation between the adjacent pixels in the remote sensing image,...

A planning support system for land consolidation has been developed that has, at its heart, an expert system called LandSpaCES (Land Spatial Consolidation Expert System) which contains a “design module” that generates alternative land redistributions under different scenarios and an “evaluation module” which integrates GIS with multi-criteria decision making for assessing these alternatives. Th...