Based on Multi temporal remotely sensed landscape mapping data,cellular automata model,belonging to the individual based landscape model,was used to simulate the changing process of town landuse for Longhua area,Shenzhen City.The cellular model is constructed to calculate the integrated probability of a particular non town cell,which is just near a town cell,being assimilated into town component.As for non town cell,its transforming probability is determined by the composite effect of five influence fac...