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| Author(s): |
Greice Cristina Mariano
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Computação |
| Defense date: | 2013-09-08 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo da Silva Torres;
Milton Cezar Ribeiro;
Luiz Camolesi Júnior
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| Advisor: | Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato; Ricardo da Silva Torres |
| Abstract | |
Environmental changes have become an important issue on the world. A representative example of these problems arises in context of studies of phenology. Recently, phenology has gained importance as the simplest and most reliable indicator of the effects of climate change on plants and animals. The shortage or lack of information and monitoring systems in tropical regions, in particularly in South America, has encouraged many centers to develop researches to fulfill this gap. One example includes the e-phenology project. The e-phenology is a multidisciplinary project that combines research in Computer Science and Phenology. The project's main goal is to attack the practical and theoretical problems involved in using new technologies for monitoring plant phenology remotely and integrating obtained data with on-the-ground observations. In this context, this work presents the specification and implementation of a database to manage the information that should be handled by the e-phenology Project. The proposal allows the integration of phenology data collected from field observations, with climate data obtained from climate sensors and image data obtained by digital cameras. Both the modeling and the implementation of the database were based on studies on plant phenology conducted by biologists and ecologists of the Laboratory of phenology at UNESP of Rio Claro (AU) | |