Urban Land Use of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area by Automatic Analysis of Landsat Data USO Do Solo Urbano DA Area Metropolitana de Sao Paulo Atraves DA Analise Automatica de Dados Landsat

摘要

The separability of urban land use classes in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo was studied by means of automatic analysis of MSS/LANDSAT digital data. The data were analyzed using the media K and MAXVER classification algorithms. The land use classes obtained were: CBD/vertical growth area, residential area, mixed area, industrial area, embankment area type 1, embankment area type 2, dense vegetation area and sparse vegetation area. The spectral analysis of representative samples of urban land use classes was done using the 'Single Cell' analysis option. The classes CBD/vertical growth area, residential area and embankment area type 2 showed better spectral separability when compared to the other classes.