The information identification is the most difficult in the application of high-resolution remote sensing images. This paper focused on the method of QuickBird image's information extraction. Six kinds of land cover types: road, water, forest, agriculture, nuke and residence in the study area, Zhuzhou, Hunan, were identified by visual interpretation, supervised classification and non-supervised classification respectively, and the accuracy is 98.2% , 72.64% and 60.71% correspondingly. At the same time, pre-processed images of QuickBird, ETM +...