Abstract:Red Island Economic Zone, an emerging urban core in the northern part of Jiaozhou Bay, is the main area of economic development and urban expansion in recent years and in the future. Based on the SPOT[CD*2]5 and ZY[CD*2]3 high spatial resolution remote sensing images in 2003 and 2013, remote sensing analysis on land use changes in Red Island Economic Zone since the last 10 years has been carried out. Information extraction and the transfer matrix analysis of development and utilization on land monitoring results of two times have been carried out as well. The areas of salina and plowland have largely transferred into industrial land. Accompanied by a great increase in the area of industrial land, there is also an increase of roads area and highway shelterbelt area. These results indicate a significant raise in the industrialization level of the study area.