Examining the evolution of tidal creeks in the Huanghe River delta using multi-temporal Landsat images

Zhen HAN; Kai JIN; Quanli ZONG; Peng QIN; Chunxia LIU; Xiuzhi ZHU; Xinyue LI

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Examining the evolution of tidal creeks in the Huanghe River delta using multi-temporal Landsat images

Geology | Updated：2024-10-11

- Examining the evolution of tidal creeks in the Huanghe River delta using multi-temporal Landsat images
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 42, Issue 4, Pages: 1061-1073(2024)
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  College of Resources and Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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  zongql@qau.edu.cn
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- Received：02 June 2023，
  
  Online First：11 October 2023，
  
  Published：01 July 2024
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HAN Zhen,JIN Kai,ZONG Quanli,et al.Examining the evolution of tidal creeks in the Huanghe River delta using multi-temporal Landsat images[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2024,42(04):1061-1073.
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HAN Zhen,JIN Kai,ZONG Quanli,et al.Examining the evolution of tidal creeks in the Huanghe River delta using multi-temporal Landsat images[J].Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2024,42(04):1061-1073. DOI：

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Abstract

Coastal tidal creeks are important channels for exchanges of material and energy between sea and land

and play an important role in the ecological protection of tidal flats. Although tidal creeks have evolved differently in various regions

the evolutionary process of tidal creeks in the Huanghe (Yellow) River delta of China

one of the most active deltas worldwide

is not entirely clear. Therefore

the evolution of tidal creeks in the delta from 1981 to 2021 was investigated by quantitatively analysing the tidal creeks and developing a standard for dividing their evolution periods. Visual interpretation and supervised classification methods were applied to the Landsat images to extract the tidal creek network

and 17 groups of tidal creek systems were selected. Results indicate that Creek S1 was the most developed creek for having 113 tidal creeks totaling 65.8 km in length

while Creek E3 had the fastest growth rate for having average annual increase of 1.9 km. Meanwhile

the level of tidal creeks increased

the average and median lengths of tidal creeks increased

and the number of tidal creeks decreased since 1981. The evolution of the tidal creek system could be divided into four stages

namely

rising

developing

stabilizing

and degrading. Analyses of a representative tidal creek show that there was no degenerated tidal creek during the rising period

with an increase in the number of 50 and a length increase of 57.9 km between 1981 and 1989. The proportion of new tidal creeks in the developing period was more than 50% and the new tidal creeks in the stabilizing period were equal to the degraded tidal creeks. Extinct tidal creeks were greater than 50% during the degrading period. There was no fixed order of tidal creek evolution in each period

and there may be a skip in evolution. Our findings provided a reference for studying the evolution of tidal creeks.

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