Exploring the Spatial Pattern of Damage Caused by Typhoon Meranti on the Urban Green Space on Xiamen Island

Huifen Luo and Junlin Wu

Exploring the Spatial Pattern of Damage Caused by Typhoon Meranti on the Urban Green Space on Xiamen Island

2022

Huifen Luo and Junlin Wu

Typhoons are the main cause of disturbances in the natural environment of coastal cities. Typhoons often damage the urban green space (UGS) of coastal cities, and the spatial pattern of such damages provides important information for disaster recovery. For acquiring such information, remote sensing technology offers a fast and effective means. This study investigated the spatial pattern of typhoon damage to UGS using Sentinel-2 data. To this end, the damage caused by Typhoon Meranti to the UGS of Xiamen Island (including Gulangyu Island) in 2016 was taken as a case study. The results showed that the overall area without vegetation coverage increased by 1159.7 ha. Areas with high vegetation coverage experienced less damage than areas with low vegetation coverage. A coldspot map of damage clusters was generated, and the map showed that severely damaged green areas were distributed in a striped pattern, indicating serious damage to road greening. In terms of direction, east-west roads experienced a higher degree of damage than north-south roads. The determined spatial pattern of the damage caused by Typhoon Meranti on the UGS of Xiamen Island provides a basis for the post-disaster restoration of the landscape of Xiamen Island.

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