Evaluation of the ecological environment of Shandong Province using MODIS data and GIS platform

MODIS image centered about Shandong Province, classification of land use/land cover by supervised method, extraction of the indexes of biological abundance, vegetation cover, water density, land degradation, environmental quality by using spatial analysis functions in GIS and other relevant information were used to evaluate the ecological environment of Shandong Province by establishing an ecological and environmental situation index (EI) model. From the results, the overall ecological environment of Shandong Province is good, with 61.1% of the total area classed as excellent or good. However, other problems like environmental pollution, land degradation and water shortages exist, with 16.2% of the total area classed as worse. The study has positive implications on the protection and improvement of the regional ecological environment.