Remote sensing provides a viable source of data from which land use/cover changes information can be extracted efficiently and cheaply. During the past two decades

there has been a growing interest in the development of change detection technique based on remote sensing data

and a number of techniques for accomplishing change detection using satellite image data have been formulated

applied

and evaluated. As a direct spectral comparison approach

change vector analysis （CVA） is an effective method for land use/cover detection. Based on the method named as Double-Windows Flexible Pace Searching for change magnitude threshold determination

which was proposed in the previous paper

the change pixels have been detected successfully from the TM image in 1991 and 1997. This paper presents new methods of determining change direction （change type） which combines single image classification and minimum distance categorizing based upon change vector direction cosine. Furthermore

This new method is applied to land use/cover change detection in the image of Haidian district of Beijing and the result is satisfactory. The overall precision rate of distinguishing change type arrives above 70%. It shows that the new method have many advantages and is practicable.