MONITORING OF CERRADO (BRAZILIAN SAVANNA) AND ATLANTIC FOREST AREAS IN THE TIETÊ-JACARÉ HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN - SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL USING SENTINEL SATELLITE DATA

• Grant number: 18/00162-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Methods and Techniques of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Eduardo Moschini
• Grantee: Diego Peruchi Trevisan
• Supervisor: Heiko Balzter
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Leicester, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/19918-3 - Urban performance indicators of Tietê-Jacaré River Basin: methodology and integration perspective, BP.DR

Abstract

The landscape can be considered a spatial unit, whose heterogeneity is modified mainly by the established relation between society and nature, producing a configuration marked by the fragmentation or connection between its elements. The monitoring of the landscape structure is fundamental to designate its configuration, acting as a subsidy to the understanding of the anthropic impacts in the natural landscapes. The aim of this project is to monitor the areas of the Cerrado (Brazilian Savanna) and Atlantic Forest in the Tietê-Jacaré Hydrographic Basin - São Paulo - Brazil through the Sentinel 1 and 2 satellite data. In order to develop and test methods of detecting forest changes we will use the machine learning (ML) approach. The information will be analyzed in Geographic Information Systems using the ArcGIS software and Python programming language with the geographic projection latitude/longitude - Datum SIRGAS2000 for all information plan. From the overlap of data from environmental characterization and the evaluation of the proposed models, it will be possible to observe environmental landscape structure, generate essential information about the current state of such regions and allow the evaluation of environmental responses to anthropic impacts.

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)

PERUCHI TREVISAN, DIEGO; BISPO, POLYANNA DA CONCEICAO; GOU, YAQING; FOGACA DE SOUZA, BIANCA; LIESENBERG, VERALDO; HARRIS, ANGELA; BALZTER, HEIKO; MOSCHINI, LUIZ EDUARDO. Analysis of a Landscape Intensely Modified by Agriculture in the Tiete-Jacare Watershed, Brazil. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 13, n. 16, AUG 2021. (18/00162-4, 15/19918-3)

TREVISAN, DIEGO PERUCHI; RUGGIERO, MAYARA HERRMANN; BISPO, POLYANNA DA CONCEICAO; ALMEIDA, DAYANA; IMANI, MARYAM; BALZTER, HEIKO; MOSCHINI, LUIZ EDUARDO. Evaluation of Environmental Naturalness: A Case Study in the Tiete-Jacare Hydrographic Basin, Sao Paulo, Brazil. SUSTAINABILITY, v. 13, n. 6, p. 18-pg., 2021-03-01. (18/00162-4, 15/19918-3)