THE APPLICATION POTENTIALITIES OF SPOT IMAGE IN STUDY OF LAND USE,POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT OF CITY
SPOT图像在城市土地、人口与环境研究中的应用潜力——以北京市区为例

The 1:200,000 SPOT false color image of Beijing area on Mar. 2, 1986 was enlarged to 1:50,000 picture. The character and amount of information of SPOT image were studied in detail. It was compared with other remote sensing image, aerial photograph and various map data and obtained the changes of land use and environment in recent years in area of Beijing urban and suburb. The results show that SPOT image is more distinguishable than MSS image of first generation resource satellite, satisfies the requirement of land utilization mapping of which the scale is 1:50,000, and could be widely used for estimating population, land utilization and environment changes.