Estudio multitemporal del cultivo de caña de azúcar en el municipio de Palmira de acuerdo al plan de ordenamiento territorial 2001-2014

Abstract

The territory planning is a complex process that takes several years. In Colombia, the main legal tool to the territory management is the territorial order plan (POT for its acronym in Spanish), which contains the main strategies to take advantage of the territory characteristics. Each municipality must to have a POT in accordance with its population. The POT must be articulate with the develop plan of the mayor, as well as with the regional plans, for these reasons the strategies are divided in three classes in concordance with the time to execute them (short, mid and long time). On this basis, the long strategies have an execute time of three mayor period, or in other words, 12 years to achieve its goals. Palmira is a municipality that base its economy at the sugarcane cultivation, and is important understand how is the dynamic in the territory about this culture. For this reason, was realized a multitemporal study about the areas of sugarcane, before and after of the POT, to identify the possible changes and compare them with the arguments contained in the POT, through of remote sensing techniques with Landsat imagery.