ORIGINAL RESEARCH
AI-Driven Spatial and Temporal Analysis
of Ecological Assessment in the West
Liao River Basin (2010-2070), China
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School of Data Science and Application, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Information Processing Technology for Mongolian
Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Multilingual Artificial Intelligence Technology, Hohhot 010021, China
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Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization, College of Water Conservancy and Civil
Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
Submission date: 2024-07-08
Final revision date: 2024-10-19
Acceptance date: 2024-11-10
Online publication date: 2025-01-29
Corresponding author
Xiaoming Su
School of Data Science and Application, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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ABSTRACT
Amid escalating environmental pressures and dynamic socio-economic changes, current research on
ecological security often needs to provide comprehensive predictive models that effectively incorporate
multivariate relationships and long-term trends. This study aims to fill this gap by employing the
Pressure-State-Response(PSR) framework, utilizing 18 indicators derived from meteorological, remote
sensing, soil, terrain, and socio-economic datasets to evaluate the ecological security of the West
Liao River Basin from 2010 to 2021. A transformer-based artificial intelligence model was developed
to predict time-series indicators from 2022 to 2070, enhancing the accuracy of trend, seasonality,
multi-scale, and multivariate relationship predictions. Our findings reveal that the Ecological Security
Index(ESI) remained within the “Generally secure” category, exhibiting a slightly declining trend with
values ranging between 0.478 and 0.499. Key obstacle factors identified include the proportion of the
non-agricultural population, power of agricultural machinery, effective irrigated area, GDP per capita,
and the proportion of cultivated land to land area. Compared to state-of-the-art models such as Informer,
LightTS, TimesNet, and Dlinear, our model demonstrates significant improvements in Mean Absolute
Error(MAE) of 1.04%, 4.09%, 3.22%, and 4.54%, respectively. This research provides critical insights
into the region’s management and enhancement of ecological security.