Tai’an Land Use Analysis and Prediction Based on RS and Markov Model

Abstract

Abstract Land use and cover change (LUCC) is the current research focus on global environmental change. This paper analyzes the land use type and changes in Tai’an City by interperting ETM and CBERS images in 2000 and 2007, and also build Markov model to simulating the land use tendency. In the study area land use changed rapidly with the development of economy, in which farm land mainly changed to lawn or residential land in urban and rural.