标题：Landscape Analysis of Geographical Names in Hubei Province,China作者：Xixi Chen;Tao Hu;Fu Ren;Deng Chen;Lan Li;Nan Gao

来源出版物：Entropy 卷：16 期：12 页：6313-6337 DOI：10.3390/e16126313 出版年：DEC 1 2014

摘要：HubeiProvinceis the hub of communications in centralChina, which directly determines its strategic position in the country’s development. Additionally,HubeiProvinceis well-known for its diverse landforms, including mountains, hills, mounds and plains. This area is called “The Province of Thousand Lakes” due to the abundance of water resources. Geographical names are exclusive names given to physical or anthropogenic geographic entities at specific spatial locations and are important signs by which humans understand natural and human activities. In this study, geographic information systems (GIS) technology is adopted to establish a geodatabase of geographical names with particular characteristics inHubeiProvinceand extract certain geomorphologic and environmental factors. We carry out landscape analysis of mountain-related geographical names and water-related geographical names respectively. In the end, we calculate the information entropy of geographical names of each county to describe the diversity and inhomogeneity of place names inHubeiprovince. Our study demonstrates that geographical names represent responses to the cultural landscape and physical environment. The geographical names are more interesting in specific landscapes, such as mountains and rivers.

文献类型：Article

语种：English

作者关键词：geographical names;centralChina;GIS;spatial analysis;landscapes;entropy

通讯作者地址：Ren Fu;School of Resource and Environment Science,WuhanUniversity,Luoyu Road129,Wuhan430079,China

电子邮件地址：renfu@whu.edu.cn

地址：

[Xixi Chen;Tao Hu;Fu Ren;Deng Chen;Lan Li;Nan Gao]SchoolofResourceand Environment Science,WuhanUniversity,Luoyu Road129,Wuhan430079,China

[Fu Ren] Key Laboratory of Geographical Information System, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Luoyu Road 129, Wuhan 430079, China

ISSN：1099-4300