Taking Huaihua City which is one of railway terminal cities as example, by using urban land use planning map, 1：10000 topographic maps, remote sensing image, socio-economic statistical data and other relevant information, this paper analyzes the characteristics of its expansion from three different aspects： the intensity of urban expansion; the expansion of morphological features and the diversity of expansion, aided with ArcGIS 9.2 software platform and statistical analysis software （SPSS 11.5） and some different research methods such as s...
