Obtención de fuentes cartográficas para la gestión de Espacios Naturales Protegidas (ENP)Parque Natural de Urbasa y Andía (Navarra)

Abstract

Nature Park of Urbasa and Andía is located in the Northwest of Navarra. It is a natural area with significant geological, biological and ecological aspects, which enabled its declaration as a Natural Park, to ensure their conservation in harmony with traditional and new uses of enjoyment of nature. It has an area of 21,408 hectares, whose territory is occupied mainly by beech forests and mountain pastures, and given its nature was appointed SCI (Site of Community Importance). For his statement as a Natural Park, was developed the Management Plan of Resources Natural (MPRN), which establishes the basic rules for the activities that take place in this space. Also, approved the Plan of Use and Management (PUM) (Boletín Oficial de Navarra, 2002), which defines the standards, guidelines and criteria for use of territory. The main objective of this work is the application of GIS methodologies for obtaining information sources, mainly mapping that can be used to support the management of the natural park. Therefore, in some cases proposed methodologies have been applied by other authors and, in others, their own methodologies. It is intended that the use and application of the mapping results obtained that can improve various aspects of natural park management, either optimizing the mechanisms of action when dealing with a fire (Fernández-Couto, 1998; Alejo et al., 2000), whether in action to prevent soil erosion. Another secondary objective is to obtain maps for tourist use and/or educational-informative, with the ultimate aim of attracting visitors to the natural park and make them partakers of his beauty. This is the case, for example, the mapping of location and description of points of landscape interest (Moreno and García-Abad, 1996; Madiedo and Bosque, 2006). To obtain data, the Mapping Service of Navarra provides in format �shape� the georeferenced limits and 1:10000 scale aerial photographs. It has also used information from the Corine Land Cover project that develops the creation of a database 1:100000 land use in the European Union and has as main objective, the capture of digital data and geographic images collected through the series of Landsat and Spot satellites. The main problem with this project, which was designed to a very large area, it is that in local scales does not always work well. Therefore, this information was completed with that obtained by aerial photography and map habitats.