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  • May. 14, 2025

Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (4): 689-703.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.378

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Progress and hotspot analysis of remote sensing research in the Ebinur Lake area based on bibliometrics

WANG Xi1(), LI Wei1(), ZHU Tao1, JIN Wenzhe1, SUN Jianfu2   

  1. 1. College of Marine Science and Environment Engineering, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
    2. College of Economics and Management, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China
  • Received:2024-06-17 Revised:2024-10-21 Online:2025-04-25 Published:2025-04-18
  • Contact: LI Wei E-mail:m18834821924@163.com;liwei2009@dlou.edu.cn

Abstract:

As a typical lake in an arid zone, the protection of Ebinur Lake, Xinjiang, China is of great importance, and it is also the site of significant research regarding ecological degradation and maintaining ecological balance. Remote-sensing technology, which can provide large-scale, multi-scale, and multi-temporal continuous observational data, demonstrates great superiority in monitoring the ecological and environmental changes in lakes in arid areas. Using CiteSpace software, a literature visualization analysis was performed on 340 articles concerning remote-sensing technology research in the Ebinur Lake area from the CNKI and Web of Science (WOS) databases in 1990—2023. The number of publications, research groups, and research hotspots working in this field were comprehensively analyzed, and the evolution process, research foci, and their changing trends were revealed. The results indicate that research in this field began in 1990 and has passed through the embryonic and rapid-growth stages, recently entering a slow decline. Core author groups and institutions have been formed, but there remains room for improvement in interdisciplinary cooperation. The research hotspots include topics related to Ebinur Lake, its wetlands, and its basin, gradually shifting from early lake-surface change and desertification monitoring analysis to diversified approaches such as estimating ecosystem service value, land use, and landscape pattern changes. While remote-sensing technology research in the Ebinur Lake area has seen remarkable progress over the past several decades and has gradually formed a multidisciplinary research pattern, some challenges remain, and there are directions for future development: (1) The ecosystems in the Ebinur Lake area are diverse and unique, and large-scale, continuous remote-sensing monitoring data are lacking. In the future, continuous remote-sensing observations of the ecological dynamics in the Ebinur Lake area should be intensified. For instance, in terms of the seasonal and annual changes in the Ebinur Lake area and the dynamic conversion of surrounding types of land use, continuous remote-sensing observation data can more accurately reflect changing trends, providing more comprehensive data support for regional ecological protection and resource management. (2) The Artemia resources in Ebinur Lake can be evaluated using remote-sensing technology. Artemia is an important biological resource in Ebinur Lake, although there have been few remote-sensing studies of it here. Such an evaluation will promote the in-depth integration of remote-sensing technology and fishery resource science, as well as other fields, providing additional scientific and technological support for resource management and ecological protection in the area around Ebinur Lake, promoting remote-sensing technology research in the Ebinur Lake area to develop in a more comprehensive and diversified direction.

Key words: remote sensing technology, bibliometrics, visualization analysis, progress and hotspots, Ebinur Lake