In order to analyze and evaluate the application ability of multi-spectral and hyper-spectral data of ZY-1 02E satellite in vegetation ecological investigation in plateau area, this paper chooses Huize-Dongchuan in northeast Yunnan as the research area, which is characterized by obvious vertical zoning of vegetation, By using multi-spectral data, visual interpretation and vegetation index extraction were carried out respectively, and data such as GF-1 and Sentinel-2 with similar spatial resolution and imaging time were selected to compare and analyze the results. In the plateau area, support vector machine method, neural network method and spectral angle classification method were used to analyze the vertical zoning characteristics of mountain vegetation and extract typical vegetation types. Combined with the field measured spectrum and forestry survey data, evaluate the application effect of hyperspectral. The results show that the multi-spectral data of ZY-1 02E satellite has clear image features of main vegetation types and is easy to distinguish and identify. The extraction results of vegetation index are in good agreement with the comparison data. Hyperspectral data can quickly extract different vegetation ecological types, and the overall accuracy can reach more than 90%. The ZY-1 02E satellite data can be well applied to the investigation and fine classification of vegetation ecosystems in the plateau area, and has good regional ecosystem monitoring capabilities.