Land Use Change and Mangrove Conservation Strategies: A Spatial and Delphi-Based Analysis of the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

This dataset contains land cover and land use maps for the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador) from 2000 to 2024, generated using MapBiomas Ecuador Collection 2.0. The raster and vector files were reclassified into seven aggregated land cover categories to assess long-term changes, particularly in mangrove and aquaculture areas. The dataset includes classified LULC shapefiles of transitions for the years 2000, 2008, 2019, and 2022. All data were processed using ArcGIS Pro (version 3.2.0).