Abstract:Regarding the rural settlement areas in Yucheng City as the research object, based on the interpretation data of remote sensing images in 2000 and 2017, by using GIS, landscape ecology and statistical theory and methods, landscape patterns and spatial evolution characteristics of rural settlements in Yucheng city in 2000 and 2017 have been analyzed. It is showed that there are significant differences in the overall spatial distribution characteristics of rural settlement areas in the two periods of Yucheng city. Comparing with 2000, the distribution of rural settlement areas is more concentrated in 2017 in Yucheng city. In terms of the local aggregation degree, the rural settlement areas in Yucheng city is not significant enough, which is closely related to the local natural environment of the city. Although the scale and quantity of the total land use of the rural settlement areas has decreased, the scale of land use of some residential areas has increased significantly, and the residential areas have a trend of agglomeration, and the settlement patch pattern of rural settlements has changed from complex to regular.