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REMOTE SENSING AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FOR THE 
ECOLOGICAL ORDINATION OF TAUMALIPAS, MEXICO 
Wilver Salinas Castillo 
Silvia Casa Gonzalez 
Carlos Gutierrez Nufiez 
Universidad Autonoma de Taumalipas 
.Favultad de Agronomia - Unidad de Teledeteccion 
C.U. Adolfo Lopez Mateos, A.P. 337 
CD, Victoria, Taumalipas 87149, Mexico 
ISPRS Commission VII / Working Group 5 
ABSTRACT 
The Study is a collaboration effort between the state agency for social development (SEDESOL - 
Taumalipas) and the Autonomous University of Taumalipas to support ecological planning statewide. A 
general reference of land use changes during twenty years (1972-1992) has been generated using remote 
sensing and geographic information systems. For both dates LANDSAT Multispectral Scanner Images 
(MSS) will be used. Comparisons will be made to the extent and relative changes in land occupation and 
ecosystems between the two dates. This comparative analysis will allow detection of environmental 
degradation caused by different natural resource utilization schemes. The purpose is to search for 
solutions which incorporate social and economic aspects in addition to the ecological ones to develop the 
scenarios under which economic development will occur without irreversible environmental damages. 
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