Landscape Spatial Pattern Analysis for a Traditional Agricultural Landscape of Hani Terrace in Southwestern China

The agriculture landscape of the Hani terrace is a representative case of a harmonious blend of the relationships between nature and human culture. With land use and land cover, Landsat TM image and DEM data, the Hani terrace agriculture landscape ecological classification and mapping were carried out using GIS and remote sensing techniques. Based on the analysis of the terrace agricultural landscape spatial patterns with natural, the research mainly showed that the landscape types of "terrace" and "forest" are the dominant elements, the landscape spatial pattern of the Hani terrace agriculture landscape in Yuanyang county not only shows a relative ecological stability with high landscape diversity, but shows an obvious "higher forest - middle village - lower terrace - lowest river" vertical pattern with rather steep slope, especially for quite a few paddy field and dry land whose distribution are in the elevation of 1500~2000 m and on the slope of inconceivably more than 30°.