Abstract
We can say that it is an important subject as the basis of settling on the land-use planning to analyze the trend of land cover change in a local city from the point of view of the characteristic of urban area and the restrictions of land-use. In this paper, we investigated the prediction method of future land cover based on the past two satellite data by using the Markov chain analysis, the multicriteria evaluation and the cellular automata analysis for Saku city planning area. And we investigated the verification method of the accuracy of the prediction method. As a result, we found that the prediction method was appropriate, the future urban area will expand further and the green coverage around the urban area will decrease remarkably in case that the present tendency of social conditions and urban development continues.
