Evaluation of orbital radar images in the study of natural aquatic environments and environments of anthropic origin in: Monte Alegre’s Lago Grande and the Reservoir of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Plant

• Grant number: 96/04523-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: November 01, 1996
• End date: October 31, 1998
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo
• Grantee: Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São José dos Campos

Abstract

The research project consists in evaluating the use of orbital radar data in the comparative study of two distinct aquatic environments, one little altered by man (Lago Grande in Monte Alegre) and the other resulting from the construction of an artificial lake for the generation of electricity (the reservoir of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Plant). The project envisages the simultaneous acquisition of field data and images from the Radarsat, JERS-1 and ERS-1 satellites. The field data will be used to characterize the environments. We will then make estimates of the potential for the emission of methane based on data from the space field with the help of information on the area occupied by aquatic plants, water and flooded forest extracted from images. (AU)