@article{da Silva_Santiago_Candeias_Gurgel_Sales_Menezes_2017, title={Mapping of regional land-use/land-cover distribution according to soil types in the semiarid region of Pernambuco State, Brazil}, volume={4}, url={https://journals.ufrpe.br/index.php/geama/article/view/1633}, abstractNote={<p class="texto10">Geotechnology is a tool with high potential for management, processing, analysis and automatic representation of georeferenced data, providing fast and accurate information about land cover with low cost. Therefore, this study aimed to quantify the land-cover/land-use area of three mesoregions of Pernambuco State, Brazil. We used cross-checking analysis of the land-cover/ land-use and soil type classification maps for Agreste, São Francisco, and Sertão mesoregions to obtain the most predominant soil-type/land-use classifications. The main classes observed in these mesoregions were: Dense Caatinga under Ustorthent (497,841 ha) and Utilsoils (291,984 ha. In the Agreste mesoregion was bare soil under Ustalfs (316,214 ha). Finally, in the sertão mesoregion the most important class was the Dense Caatinga under Ustorthent (497,841 ha) The results obtained in this study could be helpful as a tool to guide new modeling work in the semiarid region of Pernambuco State in Brazil.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Revista Geama}, author={da Silva, Rafael Rodrigues and Santiago, Margaret Thatcher Barros and Candeias, Ana Lúcia Bezerra and Gurgel, Josimar Fernandes and Sales, Aldo Torres and Menezes, Rômulo Simões Cezar}, year={2017}, month={dez.}, pages={13–18} }