Threats to Piauí's Cerrado

Ana Sousa, Rangel Nunes (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

56 Seiten

2024
Our Knowledge Publishing (Verlag)
978-620-7-29716-0 (ISBN)

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The Cerrado is the largest vegetation formation in South America, covering just over 2 million km². Of the 203.4 million hectares of Cerrado, which represent around 24% of the entire Brazilian territory, half has been lost to practices such as unbridled grain production, extensive cattle ranching, energy generation and infrastructure. With 5.9% of the Brazilian Cerrado, the state of Piauí suffers from deforestation for agricultural exploitation. In this context, this book used Remote Sensing and Image Data Mining techniques applied to Landsat 5 satellite images to carry out a Temporal Analysis of the growth in the replacement of native vegetation in favor of agribusiness in the Piauí municipalities of Uruçuí and Bom Jesus and the consequent socio-environmental impacts caused by this practice on the Piauí Cerrado. The analysis showed a marked increase in land use in the areas under study, which led to the conclusion that the use of these techniques is a viable alternative for monitoring the processes of replacing native vegetation and assessing the socio-environmental damage caused by this practice.

Ana Sousa - Master's student in Computer Science at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), she has developed research projects involving Remote Sensing and Geoprocessing. Rangel Nunes - PhD student in Geology at the Federal University of Ceará, he is currently a professor at the Federal Institute of Piauí. He has experience in databases and geoprocessing.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	97 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
Schlagworte	Cerrado • environmental impacts • Image Mining • Remote Sensing
ISBN-10	620-7-29716-4 / 6207297164
ISBN-13	978-620-7-29716-0 / 9786207297160
Zustand	Neuware