Analyzing land use changes in Casapalma area (Guadalhorce Valley, Málaga, Spain) from 1991 to 2007
Abstract
This work demonstrates different possibilities for analyzing the cover and land use changes in a highly transformed mediterranean area. As a main tool GIS was used for photointerpretation on the land uses and vegetables covertures of soil in Andalucía (1991 and 2007) with a scale 1:50.000 and 1:25.000 respectively (REDIAM). After that, temporal land use changes were calculated in vectorial format with Crosstabulation tool. Previously, all results were supported with demographics analysis and bibliographic review by authors from this study area in Cartama township (Malaga province, Spain).
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