景观生态学是一门新兴的宏观生态学分支学科，自20世纪80年代以来，其研究内容和方法论的发展与遥感、GIS等现代对地观测技术的发展紧密联系在一起。对近年来遥感技术在景观生态学中的运用，从景观结构研究、功能研究、动态研究、尺度研究以及景观生态学应用研究五个方面加以总结，进而分析遥感技术在景观生态学研究中的应用优势特征和目前存在的主要问题，并对未来遥感技术在景观生态学研究的应用发展方向提出意见和建议。

Based on internal and external research literature in recent years,this paper emphatically deal with the utility problems of remote sensing(RS)technique,the new land monitoring technology,in landscape ecological studies.Five research areas were discussed respectively: Structure and pattern study:The attribute description of landscape structure and the utility of quantitative analysis methods need large amount of basic data,therefore the landscape structure and pattern study is the category that RS technique has been used extensively.Using RS technique has also stimulated the development of quantitative methods for landscape structure and pattern study.Choosing and improvement of most landscape indices often used to describe the characteristics of landscape pattern,are strictly related to the applicaltion of RS technique. Function study:RS data is mainly used in energy flow study of landscape,combined with field survey information,it can also be used for transferring research of nutrient elements in landscape.Although the application of RS technique in landscape function study has not achieved greatly,but a finite number of literature indicates that RS technique is a reliable tool for different ecological flow study on landscape.Along with its further development,RS technique will produce a strong support to achieve new breakthroughs in ecological function study. Dynamic study:Most of landscape dynamic studies have used RS technique,by integrating the RS data with different kinds of natural,social,economic,and historical information,the landscape changing process can be reconstructed,and the analysis precision can be enhanced greatly.These advantages have contributed a lot to the study of internal driving mechanism of landscape changing. Scale effect study:Scale effect is also a category that RS technique has been used widely.In the study of scale effect by using RS data,a fruitful study area is the scale sensitive analysis of landscape study methods. Because of the he terogeneous characteristics of landscape.it is very important to study the predictability of landscape analysis methods based on RS data in different resolution status. Practice study:Biodiversity conservation and landscape planning are the two typical practice areas of landscape ecology.Because the relationship between landscape attributes and biodiversity characteristics is very complicated, RS technique has become the best tool for landscape scale biodiversity monitoring and species survey.Application of RS technique in landscape planning concentrates mainly in the areas of landscape assessment,landscape simulation,and decision_making support,and often be used together with GIS and other quantitative analysis methods. It can be concluded that the application of RS technique,which has become an important driving force for the deve lopment of landscape ecology,has covered almost all landscape study areas .This technique has significant superiority in landscape study,but its advantages and potentials have not been practiced adequately.Tasks needed henceforth include the extending its using scope,standardization computer assistant survey methods,developing intellectualized landscape analysis system,and stimulating landscape practice study.