Título:	Use of Vegetation Cover Index (ICV) to identify susceptible areas to desertification process in the municipalities of Betânia, Floresta and Itacuruba, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Autoria:	ALVES, R. B. de O. SILVA, H. P. da ARAUJO FILHO, J. C. de DOMINGUES, M. A. de O. ALBUQUERQUE, J. O. de
Afiliação:	RAYANNA B. DE O. ALVES, UFRPE; HERNANDE P. DA SILVA, UFRPE; JOSE COELHO DE ARAUJO FILHO, CNPS; MARCO A. DE O. DOMINGUES, IFPE; JONES O. DE ALBUQUERQUE, UFRPE.
Ano de publicação:	2019
Referência:	Journal of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, v. 9, n. 6, p. 343-352, 2019.
Conteúdo:	Climate change in Brazil has led to an increase in temperature and changes in the distribution of climatic extremes, such as droughts, droughts, floods and floods. This is potentialized when it comes to the semi-arid Northeast. Environmental studies related to this theme are in constant development. For this, the geotechnologies are of great importance for the environmental studies, since they allow the acquisition and analysis of information of use of the ground, vegetal cover and phenomena of the nature. In the present work, the Vegetation Cover Index was studied using remote sensing and geoprocessing techniques through the digital processing of images acquired in the years 2000 to 2015 of the LANDSAT satellites of three municipalities of Pernambuco to observe the vegetation cover in the said temporal space with the degraded areas possibly resulting from the desertification process in the region. Thus, it was found that the municipalities of Betânia and Itacuruba have very high vulnerability (0.75 and 1, respectively). On the other hand, the municipality of Floresta presented a high vulnerability of ICV (0.5), as the vegetation deficit influences hydrological dynamics, soil protection, climatic stability and thermal influence, corroborating the desertification process.
Thesagro:	Mudança Climática Desertificação Meio Ambiente
NAL Thesaurus:	Climate change Desertification Environment
Digital Object Identifier:	https://doi.org/10.29150/jhrs.v9.6.p343-352
Tipo do material:	Artigo de periódico
Acesso:	openAccess
Aparece nas coleções:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPS)