An integrated and open source GIS environmental management system for a protected area in the south of Portugal

A. Teodoro; L. Duarte; N. Sillero; J. A. Gonçalves; J. Fonte; L. Gonçalves-Seco; L. M. Pinheiro da Luz; N. M. R. dos Santos Beja

doi:10.1117/12.2193578

20 October 2015 An integrated and open source GIS environmental management system for a protected area in the south of Portugal

A. Teodoro, L. Duarte, N. Sillero, J. A. Gonçalves, J. Fonte, L. Gonçalves-Seco, L. M. Pinheiro da Luz, N. M. R. dos Santos Beja

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Proceedings Volume 9644, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VI; 96440U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2193578
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2015, Toulouse, France

Abstract

Herdade da Contenda (HC), located in Moura municipality, Beja district (Alentejo province) in the south of Portugal (southwestern Iberia Peninsula), is a national hunting area with 5270ha. The development of an integrated system that aims to make the management of the natural and cultural heritage resources will be very useful for an effective management of this area. This integrated system should include the physical characterization of the territory, natural conservation, land use and land management themes, as well the cultural heritage resources. This paper presents a new tool for an integrated environmental management system of the HC, which aims to produce maps under a GIS open source environment (QGIS). The application is composed by a single button which opens a window. The window is composed by twelve menus (File, DRASTIC, Forest Fire Risk, Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), Bioclimatic Index, Cultural Heritage, Fauna and Flora, Ortofoto, Normalizes Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Land Use Land Cover Cover (LULC) and Help. Several inputs are requires to generate these maps, e.g. DEM, geologic information, soil map, hydraulic conductivity information, LULC map, vulnerability and economic information, NDVI. Six buttons were added to the toolbar which allows to manipulate the information in the map canvas: Zoom in, Zoom out, Pan, Print/Layout and Clear. This integrated and open source GIS environment management system was developed for the HC area, but could be easily adapted to other natural or protected area. Despite the lack of data, the methodology presented fulfills the objectives.

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A. Teodoro, L. Duarte, N. Sillero, J. A. Gonçalves, J. Fonte, L. Gonçalves-Seco, L. M. Pinheiro da Luz, and N. M. R. dos Santos Beja "An integrated and open source GIS environmental management system for a protected area in the south of Portugal", Proc. SPIE 9644, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VI, 96440U (20 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2193578

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