Abstract:Based on the remote sensing data of Landsat TM and ETM+(1987,2000), the transfer matrix of landscape types were extracted using ArcGIS software, and the spatial and temporal change of landscape pattern was analyzed using barycenter transfer model in the western Shijiazhuang, Taihang Mountains. The statistics on areas and percentages of landscape types shows that cultivated land had been dominating landscape pattern inlaid by some small pieces of forest land, grass land, water area, building land and unused land from 1987 to 2000.The analysis on transfer matrix of landscape pattern shows that the areas of cultivated land, grass land and water area decreased, among which the area of grass land decreased most rapidly resulted in the converting of grass land into forest land; and the areas of forest land, building land and unused land increased, among which the building land increased most greatly with most coming from unused land. The study on barycenter transfer model indicates that from 1987 to 2000, the barycenter transfer direction of cultivated land, water area and building land was west-north, with the furthest barycenter transfer distance of water area, and the barycenter transfer direction of forest land and grass land was east-north, only the barycenter transfer direction of unused land was west-south.