The dynamics of land use within the Amur basin in the 20th century

We examine the main results of the work on the compilation of the “Land use within the Amur river basin during the 1930s-1940s” map that was created with the use of topographic maps of different scales and years of edition. A brief analysis is made of the distribution of land types for the period concerned, both for the basin in general and for its Russian, Chinese and Mongolian parts in particular. The spatial dynamics of the land types within the Amur basin for the 1930s-2000 s is characterized using data on the present-day land use patterns within the basin as obtained previously from interpreting space-acquired images.