Research of Land Use Change in TaiAn City Based on RS and GIS

With the aid of RS and GIS techniques and based on two TM images, the area change and types change of land use in Tai´an City were studied by using change range and change rate indexes, then the drive factors were analyzed. The research indicated that, the change range of cultivated land was largest; its area decreased 31193 hm², it was translated to woodland, garden and built-up area; the change rate of built-up area was largest, which was 260.3%. The policies and planning played a primary guide role, the economic growth, especially the rapid growth of the tourism, was the direct pull factor, and the populations growth was the indirectly promote factor.