Abstract

PIMENTA, Lianne; BELTRAO, Norma; GEMAQUE, Amanda  and  PONTES, Altem. Dynamics of use and land cover in priority municipalities: An Analysis in the municipality of Moju, Pará in the period 2008 to 2014. GOT [online]. 2018, n.14, pp.267-281. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2018.14.011.

The Municipality of Moju, located in the State of Pará, has undergone changes in its natural landscape through the expansion of productive activities such as agriculture and livestock, a fact that contributed to its inclusion in the list of priority municipalities of the Ministry of Environment in 2011. This study aimed to analyze the dynamics of land use change and land cover in the municipality of Moju-PA, in the period 2008-2014. Mapping the main classes of land use and coverage through satellite images from the Brazilian Amazon Forest Satellite Monitoring Program (PRODES). The data indicated an increase of approximately 22% of the areas destined to the pastures and reduction of 4% of forest areas. However, there was maintenance of about 40% of forest areas and reduction of deforestation rates in the analyzed period.

Keywords : land use and coverage; Prodes; TerraClass; deforestation; Amazon.

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