Monitoring of bioclimatic variabilities and their impact on agricultural production in Brazil through Noaa AVHRR data

• Grant number: 97/11568-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 1998
• End date: February 29, 2000
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Meteorology
• Principal Investigator: William Tse Horng Liu
• Grantee: William Tse Horng Liu
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objectives of this project are: a) application of software for the generation of indices of environmental stress, such as TST, NDVI, VCI and TCI, using the data from Noaa AVHRR, available from the “Satellite Research Laboratory (SRL), NOAA/Nesdis”, in Washington, D.C.; b) monitoring of the climatic variability inferred from the indices of environmental stresses and their impact on the conditions of agricultural growth and production in Brazil; c) development of alternative models of forecasting of soybean crops in the producing states in Brazil via Noaa satellite; d) dissemination of methods and software developed through the internet via netscape; e) transfer of the methods developed to the operational system of the Agricultural Harvest Forecasting Division of the IBGE in Rio de Janeiro; f) updating of the computer facilities in the Laboratory of Remote Sensing Applications (LRSA) of the ACA-IAGUSP, to refine the infrastructure for undergraduate and postgraduate education. (AU)