Spatial pattern analysis of deforestation in the northeast of Minas Gerais State, Brazil.

Understanding the spatial pattern of a particular geographic phenomenon such as deforestation is a key issue to establish monitoring programs to prevent the depletion of natural resources. Thus, the goal of this study was to assess the spatial pattern of deforested areas in the Pardo and Jequitinhonha River basins using Ripley's K function. First, we mapped all deforested areas in these basins using Landsat multispectral imagery from 2007 to 2015.