Abstract:The urban-rural ecotone is an area which is strongly influenced by the urbaniza tion process. Its spatial uncertainty and temporal quality tends to cause undesi rable landscape patterns, and has been an axial point of the problems of urban e cology.The study of landscape patterns and dynamics within the urban-rural ecot one with remote sensing and GIS is useful in determining the spatial features of the ecotone and the succession of landscape factors as indicators of the relati onship between urbanization ...