Código florestal e o uso e ocupação do solo no município de Lauro de Freitas, BA – 2011-2018

Abstract

Since the 1990s the municipality of Lauro de Freitas, Ba has undergone an intense urbanization process, in this context, the work in question has as objectives to carry out a temporal analysis of the land use and occupation of the municipality of Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil, from 2011 to 2018, to identify the urban growth dynamics of the municipality and to understand the process of overlapping the urban spot on environmental resources existing, besides identifying the changes in the territory after the implementation of the New Forest Code of 2012. For its development were used files in vector and raster formats from various sources, obtained from georeferenced databases of official bodies, as well as satellite images of the Google Earth platform. These data were processed in GIS software and later their results were interpreted. Lauro de Freitas is a municipality that covers part of the APA Joanes / Ipitanga and, therefore, presented a process of overlapping environmental resources that degrades the existing environmental patrimony.