Subdivision of the Pantanal area in geological and environmental counterparts

• Grant number: 10/52614-4
• Support type: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2011 - October 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences
• Principal Investigator: Teodoro Isnard Ribeiro de Almeida
• Grantee: Teodoro Isnard Ribeiro de Almeida
• Home Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IGC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Pantanal is one of the largest continuous stretches of wetland and is located in the center of South America in the Upper Paraguay River Basin. Although this environment is relatively well defined, there is no consensus on its boundaries, its internal subdivisions, or even on the number of subareas and their adopted place names, what makes difficult any legislative or regulatory actions related to the region, since the diversity of the Pantanal is huge. The optical remote sensing is a tool particularly suited to this research. not just because all the region is located on a floodplain, not resulting in differences in lighting by the sun, as for its intense annual dynamics, which can be observed by satellite sensors, particularly using MODIS images. This paper aims to contribute to the delineation of Pantanal and its sub-areas analyzing the physical environment and vegetation cover through field data and multi-sensor, multi-scale and multi-temporal remote sensing, interpreting geology, tectonics, geomorphology, drainage patterns, sand expression of flood schemes and, especially, the characteristics of the vegetation cover. It is intended to further demonstrate that these covers are particularly related to the physical environment, thus enabling to obtain physical parameters from vegetation that will be critical to determine the various subdivisions of that environment. In GIS (Geographic Information System), data involved in environmental diversification of the Pantanal will be crossed, allowing the establishment of a proposed subdivision of the Pantanal sub-areas in geological and environmental counterparts to criteria that can be replicated, supporting the discussion of the human occupation ordering of that environment. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PENATTI, NATASHA COSTA; RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA, TEODORO ISNARD; FERREIRA, LAERTE GUIMARAES; ARANTES, ARIELLE ELIAS; COE, MICHAEL T. Satellite-based hydrological dynamics of the world's largest continuous wetland. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, v. 170, p. 1-13, DEC 1 2015. Web of Science Citations: 19.

RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA, TEODORO ISNARD; PENATTI, NATASHA COSTA; FERREIRA, LAERTE GUIMARAES; ARANTES, ARIELLE ELIAS; DO AMARAL, CIBELE HUMMEL. Principal component analysis applied to a time series of MODIS images: the spatio-temporal variability of the Pantanal wetland, Brazil. WETLANDS ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, v. 23, n. 4, p. 737-748, AUG 2015. Web of Science Citations: 7.

PARANHOS FILHO, ANTONIO C.; NUMMER, ALEXIS R.; ALBREZ, EDILCE A.; RIBEIRO, ALISSON A.; MACHADO, ROMULO. A study of structural lineaments in Pantanal (Brazil) using remote sensing data. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, v. 85, n. 3, p. 913-922, Set. 2013. Web of Science Citations: 6.