The study area is situated in the locality called Pui (45°51ʹ00″ N, 23°09ʹ00″ E) – the administrative district and commune of Pui, the Hunedoara Province, in the west part of Romania. The inhabitants practice agriculture and animal husbandry. The students analysed the parcels where the changes in land use, compared to the cadastral data, were found. The areas of interest were the parcels, where agricultural use was abandoned and the forest succession progressed. This paper investigates the possibility of applying satellite images Sentinel 2 for the automation of land use cover change detection, mainly in the aspect of monitoring uncontrolled forest succession. The results of the supervised classification of images Sentinel-2A were referred to the results of the traditionally applied manual vectorization of aerial orthophotomap. The difference for area covered by trees or shrub was 1.75% of the analysed parcels area. Analysing the results for each parcel in which the process
Climate Change and Pui village: Indicators and Impacts