Title:	Number, maps and facts: Agriculture leads environmental preservation.
Authors:	MIRANDA, E. E. de CARVALHO, C. A. de OSHIRO, O. T. MARTINHO, P. R. R. MAGALHÃES, L. A. CASTRO, G. S. A.
Affiliation:	EVARISTO EDUARDO DE MIRANDA, CNPM; CARLOS ALBERTO DE CARVALHO, CNPM; OSVALDO TADATOMO OSHIRO, CNPM; PAULO ROBERTO RODRIGUES MARTINHO, SGTE; LUCIOLA ALVES MAGALHAES, CNPM; GUSTAVO SPADOTTI AMARAL CASTRO, CNPM.
Date Issued:	2017
Citation:	In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRO BIG DATA AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS IN AGRICULTURE, 2017, Montevideo. Proceedings... Montevideo: Universitat de Lleida; Universidad de la República Uruguay, 2017. p. 175-178.
Description:	This paper presents the role of Brazilian agriculture in the preservation of native vegetation and palustrine and lacustrine ecosystems. After the approval of the New Brazilian Forest Code, farmers are required to register their rural property in the Rural Environmental Registry. By April 30, 2017, more than four million farmers were included, an area of approximately 408 million hectares. The collected data add up to hundreds of millions of polygons, requiring a computational effort and geoprocessing techniques to treat the data and turn it into information. The results indicate that the area reserved to vegetation preservation by farmers represents 20.5% of Brazilian territory, thus demonstrating the importance of the agriculture in environmental preservation.
Keywords:	Native vegetation Environmental preservation Rural Environmental Registry System Cadastro ambiental rural CAR
Type of Material:	Artigo em anais e proceedings
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em anais de congresso (CNPM)