土地卫片执法监督检查作为遏制违法用地,确保耕地红线,保障生存发展的有力手段,成为落实最严格的耕地保护制度、最严格的节约集约用地制度的重要措施。2000年国土资源部首次利用卫星遥感技术对66个50万人口以上大城市的新增建设用地进行监测,先后组织实施了16次土地卫片执法检查工作。在检查范围上,由最初的66个城市 Supervision and inspection of law enforcement by land cover as a powerful means to curb illegal land use, ensure red line of cultivated land and ensure survival and development have become the most important measures for implementing the most stringent land protection system and the strictest system of economical and intensive land use. In 2000, for the first time, the Ministry of Land and Resources used satellite remote sensing technology to monitor the newly-added land for construction in 66 large cities with a population of 500,000 or more. It has organized and implemented 16 land cover law enforcement inspections successively. In the examination range, from the first 66 cities