Synopsis The Central Selva Resources Management Project in Peru’s Palcazu River Valley was an integrated conservation and development project initiated in 1981 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Satellite imagery is being incorporated as part of a 12-year evaluation of the Palcazu Project which assesses consequent impacts, land-use change, and management success since project funding ceased in 1987. Using Idrisi's unsupervised cluster classification based on a composite image of bands 4, 5 and 7, major land cover classes were derived from concatenated Landsat TM images for 1985-86 and 1996-97 to monitor temporal land cover change. Field work was conducted in June and July, 1999 to acquire historical data for each of the land cover classes. This data will be used to create spectral signatures which will serve as training sites in a supervised classification. The supervised clasification will be used to assess classification accuracy.

Project completed by Jim Glennon and Sharon Plager with special thanks to Dr. Tony Stocks.