TocontrolsoilerosionandrestorethedegradedenvironmentintheLoessPlateau,alargenumberofmeasuresrelatedtosoilandwaterconservationhavebeenemployedthathaveprofoundlyaffectedcatchmentproperties.Thisstudyconstructedthreeindicatorstocharacterizechangestothecatchmentslope,proposedbothamethodforaregressionanalysisofadjacentimagesandasequencemodel,andappliedmultisourceremotelysensedimagesandGISspatialclusteringanalysistechnologiestoextractthematicinformationandcomprehensivelyanalyzethecatchmentchangecharacteristics.Theresultsindicatethatthecatchmentslopepropertieschangedsignificantly.Atcatchmentscale,theaveragevaluesofARC,DVCandARTwere6.43%,25.57%and4.30%,respectively.Thereweresixclusteringtypesofcatchmentslopepropertychanges.Themaximumandminimumoftheaveragesimilaritiesoftheclusteringtypeswere0.992and0.935.Eachslopecontrolmeasureshadadistincteffectoncatchmentslope;thedominatingfactorofeachclusteringtypewasidentifiedas:Type1:D-VC,Type2:D-VCLU,Type3:D-LUVC,Type4:D-TAVC,Type5:D-TACandType6:D-MFC.Type5andType1coveredthelargestareas,respectivelyoccupying37.28%and31.01%.Catchmentslopepropertychangesalsohaddistincttypesthatdependedontheirgeomorphologicalconditions.Thesefindingsprovideausefulbasisfromwhichtofurtherstudycatchmentslopehydrologicalandsoilerosionprocesses.
