Abstract: In this article, the authors selected the boundaries of Guangdong Province and Jiangxi Province as the study area，and used ZY102C remote sensing images as the main data source. The procedures are as follows. First, the researchers created the required remote sensing image for monitoring Rare Earth Mining (REE) based on several pretreatment testing with different preprocessing methods and quality evaluation of the ZY102C data in study area. Then, a suitable interpretative symbol was established referring to the previous experience of remote sensing monitoring of REE. After that, the mining spots of REE were extracted and outdoors validation was carried out. Finally, historical mining spots with former images were drawn and used for comparative analysis with spots of 2012 in order to monitor the mining conditions in recent years. The results of this research show that ZY1 02C data can meet the requirements of monitoring of REE mining conditions and the research has typical significance in the application in the southern Chinese regions.

Key words: ZY102C； rare earth mining, remote sensing monitoring