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Land use conversion is a key factor in the mitigation of GHG emission. Maximum mitigation can be achieved when degraded pasture land is converted to biofuel crops. Remote sensing images, and in particular the MODIS time series data, have a great potential to asses degraded pasture land. This work has the objective to identify pasture land and its different levels of degradation in Mato Grosso do Sul...
Over the past two decades, orbital passive microwave systems have proven to be sensitive to flood condition in large floodplains. This sensitivity is rooted in the well differentiated emission properties of calm water with respect to non-flooded land of any kind. In this paper, AMSR-E observations of an herbaceous wetland area on the Paraná River sub-basin were analyzed during the 2009-10 timeframe...
Brazil is an important sugar cane producer, which is the main resource for ethanol production, a renewable source of energy. This agricultural commodity is important to the country economy, becoming fundamental to improve models that assist the crops monitoring process. Vegetation indexes originated from remote sensing images and agrometeorological indexes can be combined to represent sugar cane fields...
This paper presents a case study addressing the comparison between different SAR polarimetric mode for tropical forest stratification: Full polarimetry (FP), Dual Polarimetry (DP) and Compact Polarimetry (CP). These 2 latter modes are simulated using FP data acquired by the L band PALSAR sensor over 2 study sites. Cayenne in French Guyana and the Fazenda São Nicolau in Brazil. The classification...
MODIS 16-day composite EVI, NDVI, and VI Quality Analysis values for 2000-2005 were extracted for 21 varzea forest sites along the Solimoes-Amazon floodplain west of Manaus, Brazil. VI values were filtered to exclude dates with VI-QA values greater than 3, and time series of median values of the remaining pixels were examined in conjunction with river stage levels recorded at the Manacapuru gauge...
In developing countries, infectious diseases are a serious public health problem. Often times, these diseases are highly related to certain urban conditions found at poor neighborhoods, such as the informal (non-permitted) settlements. Remote sensing can be a valuable tool to study these phenomena, however, the complexity of these informal settlements is still a challenge for remote sensing analysis...
The objectives of this work were to characterize seasonal dynamics of cerrado, deciduous and semideciduous forests in the north of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Time series of NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and EVI (Enhanced Vegetation Index) derived from MODIS (MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor, were compared by analyzing temporal profiles and image classification results...
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