Abstract：Through evaluating and analyzing the vegetation damaged condition in the area of open coalmine,the information to support the opencast mining environmental monitoring and assessment,as well as mining environmental restoration and management can be obtained,and this is an important siginificance to promote economic and environmental coordination development of the mining area.Xinjiang Zhundong Wu Cai Wan Open Coalmine is selected to study.The vegetation coverage in research area is extracted by Landsat TM satellite remote sensing data from 2006 to 2011.It statistics different levels in different years in vegetation coverage areas,and the different levels of vegetation coverage area variations with time and the changes in speed and magnitude are analyzed.The results show that(1) from 2006 to 2011,the coverage area of Ⅰlevel vegetation increases year by year,but the coverage area of Ⅱand Ⅲ level vegetation decreased year by year,and that the coverage area of Ⅳ level vegetation is relatively small and barely changes,which shows that the overall situation of vegetation in research area is becoming worse and worse,because of the impact of open coal mining,(2) the closer the vegetation is from coal mining area,the greater the influence on vegetation is;under its influence,the changing speed of vegetation coverage area becomes faster,and the damaging extent of vegetation becomes more serious.

Keyword：vegetation coverage;vegetation damage;assessment and analysis;Wu Cai Wan Open Coalmine area;