A Pattern Analysis on Urban Landscape of Wenjiang District as ‘Nations in Bloom’

‘LivCom Awards’ was honored as ‘Green Oscar’.This study was based on the 2008 Google Earth satellite images of WenJiang district in Chengdu City.A relevant analysis was conducted on the pattern of urban and suburban areas in WenJiang by Photoshop and Auto CAD.And the feature of ‘Nations in Bloom’ was explored by comparing statistics and regulations with other domestic award-winning cities.The results indicated that there were dominant forest plaques in urban and suburban areas in Wenjiang,and on the whole,the index of landscape fragmentation was 0.0054.Besides,the index of landscape diversity and index of landscape dominance was 1.3603 and 0.2937,meanwhile the index of landscape evenness was 0.8452.The landscape pattern of Wenjiang was similar to Suzhou and Hangzhou to some extent.The average number of afforestation index was below that of ‘national ecological garden city’,but above that of ‘national garden city’.