| The land use/land cover change in agriculture and pasturage interlaced zone of northern Shaanxi of China in the past 15 years was investigated through land use/land cover classification of three sets of the multi-temporal remotely sensed data of TM,acquired on August 2 1986,July 30,1993 and August 9,2000 respectively.Based on the RS and GIS,this research attempted to monitor on the land use/land cover process and spatial heterogeneity dynamic change.The results show that the total area of plantation was decreasing,the scale of urban and country area had highly enlarged,and the area of forest land and grass land each has increased obviously.The quality of eco-environment was improved in the area.But the sandy desertification situation was more serious. |