Space-Temporal Study in the Protected Natural Area of Xochimilco Lake with Remote Sensing in the Period 1987-2016

8 pages•Published: November 4, 2019

Abstract

Conservation Area Ejidos de Xochimilco y San Gregorio Atlapulco, which is located in the south of the Mexico Basin, is considered as World Her- itage Site by UNESCO, and a Ramsar Site, that is, it is a Wetland of International Importance. In spite of these international designations, the conservation area has an environmental problem of many years. This article aims to deter- mine the change of vegetation cover and water in the lake area of Xochimilco over a period of 30 years. Remote Sensing facilitates the monitoring of water bodies and vegetation of conservation zones throughout months, even decades. For the period from the year 1987 to year 2016, normalized vegetation indexes NDVI=(NIR-red)/(NIR+Red) and NDWI=(NIR-SWIR)/(NIR+SWIR); and normalized water index MNDWI=(Green-SWIR)/(Green+SWIR), were used together to obtain the changes of areas in vegetation and water in annual images captured by the TM and ETM+ sensors of Landsat 5 and Landsat 7 satellites, respectively. Five classes were obtained (water, water with vegetation, dry vegetation, watered vegetation, and other materials, for instance soil and buildings) with a reliability of 89%.

Keyphrases: normalized indixes of vegetation, normalized indixes of water, remote sensing, xochimilco lake

In: Oscar S. Siordia, José Luis Silván Cárdenas, Alejandro Molina-Villegas, Gandhi Hernandez, Pablo Lopez-Ramirez, Rodrigo Tapia-McClung, Karime González Zuccolotto and Mario Chirinos Colunga (editors). Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Information Sciences, vol 13, pages 62-69.

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	https://doi.org/10.29007/bfkp