Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) affects particulate matter pollution in the atmosphere, directly or indirectly. Atmospheric particulate matter is now the primary type of air pollutant and can seriously affect the life of people in the city. It is very important for ecological and environmental protection to understand and determine the atmospheric particulate matter pollution response to LUCC. In this paper, based on satellite remote sensing technology, we analyzed the responses of particle pollution to LUCC on a large scale. The experiments were carried out in three typical cities, Qingdao, Zibo, and Jinan, in Shandong Province. The aerosol optical depth (AOD) data in the last ten years from 2001 to 2010 from MODIS L1B products were chosen to define atmospheric particulate matter pollution. The main land use types including forest land and urban land were obtained from MODIS land use classification product (MOD12) to estimate the land cover change of each city. According to the atmospheric visibility, the particle pollution was divided into four levels: no pollution, slight pollution, medium pollution, and heavy pollution. The numbers of effective days for each air pollution level and the areas of each land use type in the three cities were counted to analyze the correlation of particle pollution with LUCC. The sensitivity of particle pollution to LUCC and the impact of urban change on particle pollution were also considered. There are three main conclusions: (1) the correlation between atmospheric particle matter pollution and LUCC is lower in Qingdao (R=-0.451) but higher in Jinan (R=-0.473) and Zibo (R=-0.507). (2) The influence of urban land on Zibo's atmospheric particulate matter pollution is higher than that of Qingdao. Forest land is the most important factor on particulate matter pollution in Jinan, with the correlation coefficient between the scale of forest land change and the four air pollution level weather changes of 0.176, 0.859, 0.753, and 0.309 respectively. (3) The response of atmospheric particle matter pollution to LUCC is obviously different in different cities due to different dominant factors.