In the land fund of the mountainous areas, implicitly of the Banat Mountains, forest areas predominate and in high proportions the areas used as grasslands. Over time, under the influence of natural and/or anthropogenic factors, grasslands undergo changes in terms of the occupied surface. In this context, the main purpose of the paper is to analyze the changes in grassland areas between 1990 and 2018, based on the land cover/land use data available in the form of the Corine Land Cover database, editions 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018. As a case study, the Teregova administrative-territorial unit was selected, with an extensive surface and representative for the mountain area of Banat. The vector data, respectively the graphic representation of the grassland surfaces, were processed in the ArcGIS 10.4 software. After processing, the two sets of data from the years 1990 and 2018 were compared to determine the changes produced. For a detailed analysis of the changes, the Land Change Modeller module was used, implemented in the TerrSet software, through which it is possible to follow the transformations in other ways of land use, the "migration" of land from one class to another, but also the increases or surface losses, within the same category of use. The research results show the mobility of the land use categories, in the analyzed time interval, by decreasing and/or increasing the surfaces for different land use categories, which may suggest the development of new strategies for managing the respective space.

land use, grasslands, GIS, change detection

geodesy engineering

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