Temporal analysis of forest cover in the municipality of Palotina

Since its foundation, the municipality of Palotina has had its native forest cover removed and fragmented, giving way to agricultural crops, pastures and city buildings. Remote sensing systems and techniques allow the study of a region's environmental evolution through multitemporal analyses, establishing comparisons of the same landscape between two or more periods. Given this scenario, this book sought to perform a temporal analysis of the vegetation cover and landscape structure of the municipality of Palotina between 1985 and 2014, using remote sensing techniques and Landsat 5 and 8 satellite images.