National policy change´s influence on the landscape pattern in Maoxian county

Landscape pattern analysis is becoming the core to study global or local change. Incorporated with fast, dynamic and precise spatial information technology, Landscape pattern analysis has been a foundation for the governments to make decision. In this paper, the authors do the landscape classification on TM/ETM in Maoxian county firstly, then study the change influence of national policies on the landscape pattern of Maoxian county. The result indicates that with the polices changes, the landscape pattern in Maoxian county was changed accordingly.