The evaluation of landscapes has been showing an efficient tool for purposes of determining the appropriate land uses, considering the potential attraction of the several types of terrestrial surface covering. Among the employments of the orbital images, the generation of land use maps is quite spread, which serves as base for the landscape evaluation. The present work has the objective to propose and to test a methodology for the visual quality evaluation of the landscape, through the employment of classified and post-processed orbital image and implementing a specific algorithm, for evaluation of several uses of the land surface in the study area. Thus, on the basis of indirect method of landscape evaluation, an algorithm that uses of orbital images for the landscape evaluation was developed. The obtained results were mosaics and maps of the visual quality of landscape of the studied area. At the end, it was concluded that the computational program technique evaluation was found to be appropriate for the proposed purpose, however, it should be considered as preliminary result and base for more detailed studies.
valuation; land use; orbital image
