Abstract:Desertification is not only one of the most serious ecological environment problems but also the limiting factor of the development of agriculture in arid areas. This paper took the area of 150 regiment in Shihezi City of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as the study area, and used TM images to derived the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI) and surface Albedo, and to classify desertification grade of study area by establishing NDVI-Albedo feature space. Desertified land in the study area can be divided into very severely desertified, severely desertified, moderately desertified, and mild desertified. The accuracy of the monitoring was tested with the ground investigation, and the result showed that the accuracy meet the requirement of the study. With the same method, we classified desertification area in 2000, 2005 and 2010, and analyzed the dynamic changes of desertification three periods. The analysis showed that the development of desertification has been effectively controlled after 10 years.