Research of Islands Classification and Evaluation Based on Data Analysis Methods

Abstract

Islands, as an important land part of China, are independent geographical unit with special property. It is of great significance for exploitation and protection of islands that give them a correct classification evaluation. In this study, 30 islands were chosen with 16 different factors include environment protection, economic and social development to realize the classification of them. Meanwhile the relationship between different factors that can give a direction of developing islands was explored. The study showed that the islands could be classified by economic developing islands, environment developing islands and traditional islands. The economic development had a strong correlation to the social development and the environment had a weak correlation to the social development. The economic development had very few correlation to the environment. Through the islands classification and evaluation, on the one hand the current situation of islands could be deeply discovered, on the other hand the relationship between the exploitation and protection of islands could be grasped in a better field.

Keywords

• island classification
• island environment
• island development
• data analysis
• principal component analysis