Avaliação por sensoriamento remoto do porte dos empreendimentos de barragens no município de Itaqui

Abstract

The present project is part of a larger project entitled: Geomorphometry Applied to Dams for the Assessment of Agricultural Production Integrated with Aquaculture, which aims to survey the areas and volumes of the dams destined for rice irrigation on the West Frontier of Rio Grande do Sul, by means of satellite and radar images, and evaluate their use for aquaculture. Thus, the objective of this subproject is to use satellite images to make a historical survey of the water depths of dams inserted in the municipality of Itaqui in the years 1984 and 2020. Analyzing the development of these areas to identify whether there has been growth or not. Identifying the reasons for these, for example, government incentives, access to credits and / or potential of the areas, as characteristics of the relief and / or climate of the region. For this, images from the Landsat5 and Landsat8 satellites will be used and their geoprocessing using GIS software.