The Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza has a great diversity of environmental components and a substantial increase in recent decades of occupation and land use and exploitation of natural resources by human activities, notably the expansion of urban settlement and mining. This diversity implies environmental different levels of capabilities and limitations of exploiting these areas to human activities. Knowledge...
The use of techniques of digital image processing remote sensing allows applications of great importance for the geosciences. One of the possible fields of application of these resources is the geotechnical mapping. Filtering techniques for radar and optical images emphasize natural linear structures that can be interpreted as fractures, drainages, ridges, valley bottoms and foliation. With the lifting of these...
The Metropolitan Area of Fortaleza has great potential natural and economic for the development of mining of aggregates. Diversity of lithology ensures good supply of material for immediate use in civil construction and economic growth associated pent-up demand by building housing and also the deficiencies, of urban structure form the scenery favorable to expansion of this activity in the region. It is a activi...