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ANDRADE, Onelia et al. Generating and mapping of environmental parameters to make land evaluations in Torres Municipality, Lara State, Venezuela. Bioagro [online]. 2010, vol.22, n.2, pp.115-126. ISSN 1316-3361.

Combined use of geographical information systems, digital elevation model, remote sensing, analogue and/or digital maps, meteorological data, and field visits, is useful in generating information and mapping of environmental and socioeconomics parameters. This information is necessary to achieve a land evaluation for rainfed agriculture. The objective of this work was to obtain the digital maps necessary to make this evaluation in Torres municipality of Lara state. Climatic data from meteorological stations, mathematic equations and interpolation techniques were used to map and define four climatic demarcations: semiarid, dry subhumid, humid subhumid, and humid. Physiographic maps were derived from a digital elevation model (DEM) of municipality, differencing three types of landscapes: high mountains, low mountains and “miscellaneous”. Non-spatial attributes to the spatial entities in the geological and soils map were enlarged through bibliographical information. Thematic maps of hydrology and covert were generated through digitization of analogue maps and brought up to date with an image Landsat. The map, land use type was obtained from a survey applied to farmers from municipality. As a result of these procedures, information and mapping of environmental and social parameters of Torres Municipality were generated, which can be very useful for accurate evaluation of lands.

Palavras-chave : Map; GIS; DEM; remote sensing; FAO model.