This article aims to demonstrate how the land use and cover can indicate ways and trends regarding the occupation of the territory. Through techniques of remote sensing and GIS, and using Landsat satellite image of 2010, a mapping was conducted in order to identify crops, planted forest, forests, mangroves, grasslands, restinga vegetation, wetland, stream, mining areas, rocky outcrop, urban occupation and beach for the whole territory of Espirito Santo State. After mapping, it was identified that the reality of land use and cover of our state, is not as simple as it seems. Complex processes of occupation occur in certain areas, causing the understanding of the spatial organization of these patterns, as they depict human activities and spaces that can mean materialized pressure and impact on the natural elements.Pages: 7695-770
