The purpose of this paper is to develop the flow charts of the processes of implementation of the main and alternate geo-information methods, when studying the changes in the land use structure of territories based on the materials of multi-zone space imaging. The research methods are geo-information method and comparative analysis. The paper provides a review of scientific publications on the research topic, proposes the key indicators, which are used as a basis for accomplished comparative analysis of the proposed geo-information methods implementation.
The proposed methods of determination of changes in the land use structure of territories, on the basis of materials provided by the multi-zone space imaging and data from national reports on the status and use of lands in the Russian Federation, enable estimation of dynamics of urbanization of certain territories, as well as the forecast of changes in the land use structure.