Abstract:Research on the spatial distribution of builtup areas is an important part of urban development planning. Aiming at the problem that a single data source is not enough to provide accurate and timely information of builtup areas, an urban expansion monitoring method combining Landsat data and luminous remote sensing data has been proposed. Regarding Landsat images and luminous remote sensing image as data sources, using the SVM classification method and mutation detection threshold segmentation technology, the scope of original built-up areas in Ji'nan, Tai'an and Laiwu from 2004 to 2016 has been extracted. The indexes of urban expansion intensity, compactness, barycenter track transfer and equal sector analysis have been introduced to analyze the temporal and spatial characteristics of urban expansion quantitatively. It is showed that the builtup area has increased 508.06km2 from 2004 to 2016. Ji'nan and Tai'an city were in an extended urban developing way in the past in the north, west and south, while Laiwu developed as a filler city. Its compactness is higher than that of the other two cities. Among them, the index of urban expansion intensity quantitatively reflects major breakthrough in the urbanization process of the study area from 2004 to 2007. It is an important stage of the regional urbanization process. Comparing with a single data source, luminous remote sensing data can be used to extract the information of urban builtup area more quickly and efficiently.