Photointerpretation Data set

In order to study the evolution of land cover change in this desert region, we analyzed land cover change process of four valleys with different levels of agricultural development. Specifically we want to corroborate the hypothesis that in the last two decades, land cover change in the agricultural valleys of Arica and Parinacota region is oriented to intensification and is occurring at a high rate of change, directly related to some common biophysical drivers of the landscape and to the agronomical conditions, like elevation or water quality.
We found that agricultural intensification is occurring at a high rate of change of land cover, mainly to the spreading of netting and low crops ind detriment of native shrubland or more complex cover like fruit groves.
Results, demonstrate that these valleys are under intensification in differente degrees and landscape simplification is expected in the near future.
Supplemetary 1 and 2 are the results about the transition matrices and rate of change supporting our hypothesis about intensification.