Firstly, the land-use map of 1979,1986,1994,2002 and 2008 in Hengyang City was vectorized in the ArcGIS soft- ware. And then, its spatial expansion characteristics were measured from the overall land-use situation, the growth intensity, the growth form and growth stage by using overlay analysis, buffer analysis, expansion intensity index, compact index, the fractal dimension, and quantitative index. At las...
