Prospect of the Application of Digital Landscape Technology in the Field of Landscape Architecture in China

Digital landscape technology has become one of the main ways to effectively solve the problems faced by landscape architecture along with the coming of the digital era. This paper summarizes the core scientific issues faced by landscape architecture currently as the coordination of ecology and morphology, the satisfaction of human needs and the innovation of design and practice. In order to find the corresponding digital landscape technology to solve the above core scientific problems, 5,328 papers from 2010 to 2020 in Web of Science are taken as the research object firstly. Then Citespace software is adopted for quantitative research together with the literature research methodology, to sort out the development trends and emerging techniques globally and discuss the specific role of the emerging digital landscape technology in solving current problems of Chinese landscape architecture. In the end, it is proposed that the integration of “interdisciplinary and cross-domain” technical methods and the collaboration of “whole-process and precision” design practice will be the development and application trend of digital landscape technology in the field of landscape architecture in china.