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Natural resources
Vegetation and land cover
Environmental indicators aredeveloped formonitoring the state of vegetation,
enabling the characterizationof phenomena suchas drought andhydrological
stress situations.Moreover, land covermonitoring inAndalusia is conductedon
thebasis of the current edition of the Spanish Land Cover Information System
(SIOSEby its acronym in Spanish) updated in 2011,which keeps adetailed scale
level 1:10,000.
4,555.0
4,397.2
4,381.8
3,541.3
3,663.5
3,646.9
359.1
390.2
405.7
302.8
304.9
310.6
Landcover evolution inAndalusia
1
2005
2009
2011
*
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
Constructedandalteredareas
Water andwetlands areas
*
Thousands of hectares
Natural and forest areas
Agricultural areas
Landcovermap 2011
Constructedandalteredareas
Arable crops andgreenhouses
Woody crops
Scrublands andpasturelandswithout trees
Mixed crops and vegetation
Forest
Scrublandswith trees
Pasturelandswith trees
Wetlands areas
Areaswithout vegetation
43,852.83
km
2
Natural and forest areas
1
50.1
%
on regional surface
9
%
Regional territorywith stressed
andnon stressed vegetation.
Hydrological period 2012-2013
2
36
%
1. Information obtained from themapping
database of SIOSE-Andalucíaproject
(Spanish Land Cover Information System).
2. Percentage of stressed vegetation obtained from
the TERRAMODIS images onNDVI
(Normalize Difference Vegetation Index).
historical series averagevalue
(1992-2013)
Main land cover inAndalusia2011:
