The Indigenous Lands in the legal Amazon were created with the objective of enabling
indigenous communities to enjoy the biodiversity of the territory according to their
customs, as well as protect and conserve natural resources. However, as cattle activity
increases, the demand for new areas has increased, putting at risk the indigenous lands
that are close to the agricultural frontier, as is the case of the Apyterewa Indigenous Land.
Thus, the objective of this work is to map the dynamics of deforestation, quantifying its
rates and variables in the IT Apyterewa, São Félix do Xingu - PA, through remote sensing
techniques applied in satellite images between 2000 and 2018. For this images from the
Landsat 5 satellite sensor and Landsat 8 OLI sensor from 2000, 2005, 2010, 2014 and
2018 were used using the segmentation tool and an interpretation key to classify
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deforestation. By means of this it can be observed that in the Apyterewa Indigenous Land
it is found with 12% of its deforested territory due to the expansion of cattle ranching and
more than 80% of its territory occupied by non-indigenous people.
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