The present study aimed to study the urban green areas of the municipality of Contagem in the period from 1999 to 2015, with the aid of the tools of remote sensing and geoprocessing. It was used the Landsat 7 images from the year 1999 and Landsat 8 from 2015, which were acquired for free from the United States Geological Service (USGS). One of the specific focuses of the work was to verify the modifications of the legislation referring to the urban...