AVALIAÇÃO DO USO E OCUPAÇÃO NA CABECEIRA DO RIO PIRAPOZINHO (SP)

• Main Authors: Ana Paula de Costa, Lucas Prado Osco, Rodrigo Coladello, Marcos Norberto Boin
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Oeste Paulista 2014-08-01
• Series: Colloquium Humanarum
• Subjects: Environmental Degradation; Water Resources; Basin of River Pirapozinho
• Online Access: http://revistas.unoeste.br/revistas/ojs/index.php/ch/article/view/1182/1227

This paper aims to present the cartographic and analytical survey concerning the conditions for the use and occupation in the field covered by the watershed of the river Pirapozinho, more precisely in its upper course (headwaters) area, which concentrates the urban area and the municipal landfill of solid waste. The final map was generated by the software ArcGIS 10.1, upon aerial photographs that comprised the study region. Since then, field work was conducted in order to prove the veracity of the information gathered in the mapping. Therefore, the article attributes his approach on the intrinsic capabilities of the physical environment, highlighting the natural components as well as their weaknesses, contributing to the confection of an environmental assessment for the studied area.