MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF THE ANTROPIZATION DEGREE OF THEUBERABA RIVER MUNICIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AREA, UBERABA, MG, BRAZIL

Abstract

The Municipal Environmental Protection Area of the Uberaba River was created in 2005 with the purpose of protecting the main source of public supply of the city of Uberaba. This paper aims to analyze the impact that its creation had on the regulation of land use and land cover. For this purpose, land use and cover maps are prepared for the years 2000, 2010 and 2016, by use of Landsat satellite images and the Anthropic Transformation Index (ITA) is calculated. As a result, it was identified that the municipal Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental— APA) of the Uberaba River is classified as degraded in the years 2000 and 2010, however, for the year 2016, it was considered regular. The results showed that the creation of the conservation unit contributed to the regulation of land use and land cover.