Use of geotechnologies in the spatialization of vegetation cover in the City of Uruburetama, Northeastern Brazil
International Journal of Development Research
Use of geotechnologies in the spatialization of vegetation cover in the City of Uruburetama, Northeastern Brazil
Received 27th December, 2021; Received in revised form 04th January, 2022; Accepted 20th January, 2022; Published online 26th February, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Davi Rodrigues Rabelo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The presence of green area in large urban centres is a strong indication of the welfare of the city and causing, above all, debates to draw attention of both the population and the government. The present research sought to identify the vegetation cover in the city of Uruburetama-CE through geoprocessing techniques to analyze the results of the urbanization effects. The mapping consisted in acquisitions of images from Google Eath and the IBGE database for the delimitation of the urban area of Uruburetama and were processed through the software SPRING 5.2 and Quantum GIS 2.0 for confection of the map. The result had 67% of the area with vegetation cover, i.e., of the 5,665.730 m² of the urban area, 3,790.502 m² are covered by vegetation. Therefore, the products obtained by the Remote Sensing technique and the GIS allowed the aid of such studies with a certain degree of accuracy, obtaining cartographic data in the studies of vegetation cover.
