The article discusses the problems of monitoring on urban lands. In the context of a significant change in the principles of land relations and the aggravation of environmental problems, the role of land assessment and monitoring in the information support of land management and land protection is increasing, which is most characteristic of urban conditions in the urban cadastre system. Therefore, the development of a methodology for assessing the ecological state and the typification of urban lands by the magnitude of anthropogenic load, the creation of a land monitoring system in the city and the selection of the most effective environmental measures to improve the state of the urban environment are of considerable relevance at present.