Abstract: Vegetation can adjust the urban thermal distribution,and there is a consanguineous connection about distributing and intensity of urban thermal distribution and NDVI.The research of the relationship between urban thermal distribution and NDVI will find their spatial distributing characters and reflect the change of urban spatial structure and urban entironment.Base on the softwares  ARCGIS and ARCVIEW,use spacial analyst technique of GIS,calculate and distill information about urban thermal distribution and NDVI which locate the area within outside ring road of Shanghai City from TM images of Shanghai,2003,build the regression approach equation of urban thermal distribution and NDVI,and do analysis on the relationship between urban thermal distribution and NDVI.The result indicates that the relationship between urban thermal distribution and NDVI is minus correlation.

Key words: urban thermal distribution, NDVI, remote sensing, spatial analysis, Shanghai City