The purpose of the present study is to estimate land cover change and desertification in Inner Mongolia semiarid region using Landsat data and the survey data of land use condition, and the land cover classification maps of summer in 1986, 1994 and 2002 were created. The vegetation change tendency of the different vegetation regions were estimated by the spectrum analysis of the bands characteristic; and the texture analysis of the spatial feature change of land is applied to desertified land. Based on the results, the enforcement effect of land use plan advanced by Inner government was evaluated.
