In recent decades, natural disasters caused by landslides have caused many deaths and economic losses in Brazil and as worldwide. Susceptibility maps to mass movements have been used to indicate areas susceptible to these phenomena in mountainous regions, allowing better planning of the land use. This paper presents susceptibility maps to mass movements, based on morphometric variables natural and environmental...
With the advancement of computer technology in recent decades came along the advancement of digital data and the ease of obtaining this information gathering from the World Wide Web. Digital models of ground elevations, for example, which generated data of complex and difficult access some years ago, are now available freely on the internet in different resolutions and accuracies for the entire globe. Many work...
This present paper aims to demonstrate the evaluation of the accuracy of orthomosaics and Digital Terrain Models (DTM) generated by the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by the University of Brasilia (UnB) in partnership with the National Department of Mineral Production (DNPM). This study evaluated the orthomosaic and the MDT from a pile of laminated limestone exploitation tailings in the Santana do Cari...
The change in the landscape is caused by the natural processes resulting from the interaction of surface agents with the environment, where these dynamics can take up to thousands of years to occur, but when anthropic actions interact with the environment, landscape dynamics can occur in a way accelerated, modifying the landscape in short time span and covering large areas. The interventions that the man submit...
Coastal regions are dynamic environments formed from the joint action of wind, terrestrial, oceanic & atmospheric processes. Remote sensing, coupled with digital image processing & geographic information systems, has been used in studies related to the coastal environments. The use of these geotechnologies finds it difficult to individualize geomorphological compartments of the coast due to the compositional ho...
Remotely Aircrafts (RA), popularly known as Drones, are capable tools to generate highly accurate remote sensing products with a great potential perspective for use in the Environmental Audit process, performing previously exclusive tasks of manned aircrafts. However, because it is a relatively recent technology, it is justiied the need to consider the applicability of its use in environmental studies. The purp...
Coastal environments are highly dynamic and sensitive to interference and variations caused by the numerous natural and anthropogenic agents. The northern coast of Northeastern Brazil has undergone intense erosion in recent years. However, the construction of the Pecém Port modified the beach and shoreline features differently from the adjacent areas. This article describes using remote-sensing images integrate...
This study used Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (5-TM) images in the morphostructural characterization of the shallow continental shelf of the eastern coast of Ceará (CE), in the Jaguaribe river mouth. The dam built near the river mouth to transpose the water towards Fortaleza, CE, ensures good water transparency since little of the river-carried sediment reaches the sea. The used image was captured on date and time ...
The importance of coastal zones implies the need for continuous studies related to the monitoring of their processes. In this context, the shoreline represents one of the most dynamic features, and its variability is an indicator of erosion or coastal deposition. In order to evaluate the changing trends of the coast of the Icapuí city, located in the far east of the state of Ceará, this work involved the use of...
Coastal erosion occurs in several parts of the world. Sometimes, it destroys structures close to the shoreline causing economic damage. In the state of Ceará, Brazil, there are stretches with retrogradation. A classic example is from the area near the Mucuripe harbor (Fortaleza). From this context, the objective of this paper was to analyze the evolution of the State of Ceará shoreline between 1984 and 2018. To...