In view of the priority project of the western development, this paper deals with the predominance of remote sensing technology which applied in the investigation and development of western mineral resource, land resource, water resource as well as ecological environment monitoring and basic installations establishment, illustrates a large number of examples of the achievement of the remote sensing technology in land resources investment, engineering geology, environment geology, disaster geology and so on, expounds what problem the technique can solve and how to solve, analyses the technique's development direction, and regards the remote sensing technology is one of the most important technique in the western development.
2000, Vol. 12 
