Análise temporal do NDVI como ferramenta para o planejamento do ecoturismo na APA do Rio Pandeiros, norte de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Ecotourism can be considered as a tool to teach people about environmental conservation. It is necessary to create conditions to visitants in conservation units in order to improve their experience. In this way, the conservation unit management needs to plan the activities carefully, mainly about the visitation periods. This paper evaluates the normalized difference vegetation index for the Environmental Preservation Area of the Pandeiro’s River in order to contribute to the ecotourism planning. It was considered Landsat images obtained monthly since 2016 August to 2019 August. Data were processed by QGIS software and the results were correlated with the monthly precipitation. It was possible to observe that there is a sensible relationship between vegetation condition and amount of rain. For the period between June and October, there is more sparse vegetation and for the months between December and April there is more dense vegetation. Is was possible to conclude that the normalized difference vegetation index can be applied to indicate visitation periods for the local studied.