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Land Cover in Coraza and Montes de Maria Protective Forest Reserve, Department of Sucre, Colombia


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1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sucre, Carrera. 28 #5-267, Puerta Roja, Sincelejo, Colombia
2 Department of Biology and Chemistry, University of Sucre, Carrera 28 #5-267, Sincelejo, Colombia
 

Objective: This research study aimed at verifying, through satellite monitoring, changes that land cover of Serrania de Coraza and Montes de Maria Protective Forestry Reserve has experienced from 1990 to 2017. Methods / Analysis: Unsupervised classification method, and Landsat and SPOT satellite images were used. Findings: There is a high proportion of bare soil during the first 20 years of the study, whereas in the last five years values considerably decrease. For the cover regarding the intervened areas, the opposite occurs, since during the first 20 years values are much lower than in the last five years, reaching a 43% proportion. Cover of primary forests has declined throughout the study period. Application / Improvements: Forced peasants’ displacement in Montes de Maria during the 1990s and 2000s, due to the armed conflict Colombia has experienced for years, could be related to the results. Urgent measures are required to preserve biological diversity in the region.
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Authors

Gaston Ballut Dajud
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sucre, Carrera. 28 #5-267, Puerta Roja, Sincelejo, Colombia
Alcides Sampedro Marin
Department of Biology and Chemistry, University of Sucre, Carrera 28 #5-267, Sincelejo, Colombia
Jhon Jairo Feria Diaz
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sucre, Carrera. 28 #5-267, Puerta Roja, Sincelejo, Colombia

Abstract


Objective: This research study aimed at verifying, through satellite monitoring, changes that land cover of Serrania de Coraza and Montes de Maria Protective Forestry Reserve has experienced from 1990 to 2017. Methods / Analysis: Unsupervised classification method, and Landsat and SPOT satellite images were used. Findings: There is a high proportion of bare soil during the first 20 years of the study, whereas in the last five years values considerably decrease. For the cover regarding the intervened areas, the opposite occurs, since during the first 20 years values are much lower than in the last five years, reaching a 43% proportion. Cover of primary forests has declined throughout the study period. Application / Improvements: Forced peasants’ displacement in Montes de Maria during the 1990s and 2000s, due to the armed conflict Colombia has experienced for years, could be related to the results. Urgent measures are required to preserve biological diversity in the region.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2018%2Fv11i33%2F131337