The land use structure changes during 2000-2005 in agricultural landscape in Jianghan Plain are described, using following indices: landscape percentage (%LAND), patch density (PD), mean patch size (MPS), total edge length (TE), mean shape index (MSI) and landscape shape index (LSI). The spatial land use data was from land use database of CAS. Through interpreting Landsat TM images of 2000 and 2005 respectively, the land use change data was extracted to describe the overall agricultural landscape structure changes during 2000-2005 by spatial analysis with Supermap platform. The results show th...