Analysis of Landscape According to Land Use at Rural Area in Korea Using GIS Application

To designate rural landscape spatially, land use and topographic features for 383 of "Ri"s or "Dong", which is a basic administrative unit in Korea, were analyzed using GIS application. We have categorized rural landscape into three types such as agricultural, natural and urban landscape by land use. On the basis of spatial landscape pattern, rural area could be classified into 6 groups of Mountainous area(MA), Mountainous village area(MV), Developing mountainous village area(DM), Plain agricultural area(PA), Developing plain village area(DP) and Urbanized area(UA) according to the ratios of land for agricultural and urban use as the criteria.