Abstract:To analyze the landscape change of city groups in central Liaoning Province, we classified the remote sensing images of 1988 and 1998 into 12 cover types., The transformation matrix between each two stages was created in GIS (Geographical Information System). Marsh disappeared from the landscape and reed fields showed a declining trend (only remained 6.13%) in this period and could disappear in future. The most change was seen from sandy land which increased by 397.39% and the least change was seen for the ...