Assessment of landscape diversity on the Amur river middle course islands with use of the remote sensing data

The interpretation of satellite images by the author makes it possible to assess landscape diversity on islands of the Amur River middle course. It has been defined six types of landscape. Most of the islands are notable for a low diversity of landscape. There are predominate grasslands of different humidity rate and riverine willow thickets; forest landscapes are most rare on the islands. This is a typically island pattern - a highly dynamic system with the predominance of plant communities of early succession stages. More developed landscapes with forest vegetation could only form on some individual sites less exposed to floods, and for this reason they are unique.