Land-use and land-cover change has been along with the emergence of human settlement and cultivation of plants. During the last decades, high rates of land use change and degradation have attracted the attention of policy makers and raised the need to understand the causes of these changes. The aim of this study is to evaluate the land use change and its driving forces in Amol County between 1986 and 2011. To calculate rates of landscape change, we extracted the land cover map of each year applying Supeervised and UnSupeervised and hybrid Key words : Remote Sensing, Ordered Logistic Regression Model, Panel Data, Driving Forces.
