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Mapping LULC types in the Cerrado-Atlantic Forest ecotone region using a Landsat time series and object-based image approach: A case study of the Prata River Basin, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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In the last 30 years, the growth of the agriculture and livestock industries in the Cerrado biome has caused severe changes in land use and land cover (LULC), and areas previously occupied by native vegetation are changing to agricultural monocultures (e.g., soybean or corn) and/or pastures. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the LULC changes for the years 1986, 1999, 2007, and 2016 based on Landsat time series and object-based image analysis (OBIA) for the Prata River Basin. Twelve LULC classes were mapped: riparian forest, cerrado, swampy grasslands, wetlands, semideciduous forest, pasture, agriculture, fallow agricultural land, barren land, eucalyptus, water bodies, and burnt area. The classifications presented results with an overall accuracy of more than 93% and a kappa coefficient of 0.92. In 2007, the pasture class had the highest increase in area (48.5%), with a total area of 118.32 km2 of Cerrado biome vegetation converted to pasture, and the classes banhado, riparian forest, swampy grasslands, and cerrado had the greatest reductions in area (41.58%, 29.67%, 25.44%, and 21.63%, respectively). More precisely, the wetlands class underwent the greatest decrease under the advancement of pasture in the studied period (− 36.2%). These changes are due to factors favorable to agropastoral practices, such as a flat relief and soil with good agricultural suitability.

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The authors are grateful to the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul-UFMS; to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for the availability of Landsat images; to the Instituto do Homem Pantaneiro (IPH) for the aerial photos; to Mineração Calcário Bodoquena Ltda. for assistance, including the work of Edevaldo Herculano Cardoso and Heloneide Rodrigues; to Marlon Dagher Arce and Helivélton Rodrigues for the fieldwork collaboration; and finally to Cláudia Camargo for proofreading the text.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES – Fund Code 001, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil - CNPq (304213/2017-9 and 304540/2017-0), and Federal University of Paraíba.

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  1. Department of Geosciences, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil

    Elias Rodrigues da Cunha & Richarde Marques da Silva

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, 58051-900, Brazil

    Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos

  3. Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Elias Rodrigues da Cunha

  4. Department of Geography, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

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  5. Department of Agronomy, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Chapadão do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Paulo Eduardo Teodoro

  6. Department of Agronomy, State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

    Elói Panachuki & Naelmo de Souza Oliveira

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da Cunha, E.R., Santos, C.A.G., da Silva, R.M. et al. Mapping LULC types in the Cerrado-Atlantic Forest ecotone region using a Landsat time series and object-based image approach: A case study of the Prata River Basin, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Environ Monit Assess 192, 136 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-8093-9

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