Multitemporal land cover change analysis in the upper cauca basin in Colombia

Abstract

Reliable information about land cover is very important in environmental conservation processes and natural resource management. Establishing the types of land cover, how these covers are distributed, and the changes they have undergone over a period of time, are vital in revealing whether or not activities carried out in the region have affected the territory and how the landscape has changed. These in turn are essential to the generation of alternative land-use planning and broader environmental conservation processes. This study therefore presents an analysis of land cover in the Upper Cauca Basin in southwestern Colombia using land cover classifications based on remote sensing data obtained by Landsat satellites.