Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that are most heavily influenced by the climate and meteorological conditions: from sowing to harvest, various agricultural activities are promoted depending on the weather. Thus previous knowledge of such conditions through the daily monitoring and use of weather forecast information is an essential tool for agriculture. One of the ways to get weather information to support the timely decision-making of farmers is through agrometeorological monitor

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a quarter of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comes from agricultural activities, and 93% of the CH4 emitted originates from enteric fermentation. Despite that, the agriculture practiced within given management standards can result in a lower GHG emissions. The GeoPecus project's goal is the application of geotechnologies for the understanding of the cause and effect relationship between agricultural activities and the

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

This project applied geotechnologies to understand the cause and effect relationships between agricultural activities and greenhouse gas emissions processes, generating subsidies for management decisions that were agronomically and environmentally sustainable. For that, maps of pastures of the national territory were updated and geotechnologies were used to spatialize and monitor natural resources, human activities, and the consequences of these activities on the Earth's surface.

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

The agribusiness production chains represent 26.4% of Brazil’s GDP, 36% of exports and 39% of the jobs generated in the internal market. The generation of geospatial information about the Brazilian agriculture supports decisions and public policies at different levels and scales. The System for Observation and Monitoring of Agriculture in Brazil (SOMABRASIL) aims to organize and integrate census data and information generated from satellite images into a single database for the whole country, fa

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013

In the context of planning, managing and generating territorial knowledge, Geoprocessing plays a fundamental role in supporting strategic decision making through the treatment of georeferenced information, which is the object of interest in public and private institutions and organizations. The structure of databases provided by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is configured as a cartographic information generator to support the various productive chains of the agricultural sector, leadi

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

Brazilian dairy farming is distributed throughout the national territory, generates thousands of direct and indirect jobs and has a significant participation in the gross domestic product (GDP). The annual national milk production is estimated at more than 30 billion liters, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), being concentrated in the Southeast, South and Midwest regions. The following mesoregions concentrate more than 40% of Brazilian milk production: Noroe

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Forest systems are part of an important land-use strategy aimed at the maintenance of biodiversity, at the commercialization of wood products and other products, at quality of life and at environmental services such as carbon fixation. The greenhouse gas emission flows and the carbon stocked in the forests are indispensable information, and their estimation may support public policies on development and sustainability. Project GeoSaltus focuses on the use of geotechnologies for the developmen

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

We can define Rural Cultural Heritage as a set of material and immaterial records arising from the practices, customs and production initiatives that have been historically and geographically established in rural areas. The "Rural Cultural Heritage in São Paulo: A Valuable Place for Research, Education and Tourism" project aimed at providing a set of management, conservation and dissemination tools and methodologies for those responsible for rural cultural heritage, including both owners and the ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Agricultural Sanitary problems don't obey frontier lines, especially when there is land continuity as is the case of the borderland strip between Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring and the Department of Agricultural Defense of the Ministry of Agriculture have developed a system to help agricultural defense along the borderland strip, with the main goal to contribute to the eradication of the foot and mouth disease. Precise and up-to-date knowledge on spatial distrib

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

The total extension of the grasslands in Brazil still isn't quantified with precision, and even less are the degraded pastures. The demand for technologies that are able to quickly map and monitor the areas which are occupied with grasslands and their level of degradation, with precision and low costs, are ever growing. This research investigates the potential of the correlation between the data extracted from satellite images and data regarding grassland degradation obtained in field s

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009