Land use patterns of rural area in Huizhou city based on remote sensing data

Based on the TM remote sensing images of Huizhou City in 1999 and 2009, 58 and 30 sample villages were respectively selected in the plains and mountainous areas. Taking the village as center, the paper used the pattern analysis method to explore the distribution of land use types, to summarize and analyze the changes of the pattern modes, by analyzing the spatial pattern of land use types in rural areas. The results showed that there were both four modes in plain areas, three modes in mountainous areas in 1999 and 2009. The land and construction land were given priority to the plain land use, in the most of village landscape pattern, they were as substrate or dominant plaque. Woodland was given priority to the mountainous land use. Patterns and changes in the plain areas were mainly affected by rivers and economic development. Patterns and changes in mountain were mainly affected by elevation, slope and economic development. Human activities had great impacts on land use pattern mode in both areas.