Low-carbon agriculture, a program introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply in mid-2010, aims to combine the sustainable production of food, fibers and energy with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the conservation of natural resources. To this end, the Brazilian government encourages the use of the following techniques: no-till farming, biological nitrogen fixation, integrated crop-livestock-forest systems, planting of commercial forests, recovery of de

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Embrapa Satellite Monitoring, in a partnership with Indiana University (USA), coordinated the research project "Human and Physical Dimensions of Land Use/Cover Change in Amazônia: A multi-scale synthesis”. The project ended in 2010, and was part of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazônia (LBA). The research encompassed seven study areas and made a transversal analysis of the social and biophysical dimensions of transformations in the Amazon landscape. Rural settlements wer

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

Eucalyptus cropping has been growing in Brazil in the last few years and has become an important alternative for rural areas. With expressive participation in the country's trade balance, it is moved by the demand for paper, cellulose, timber and evergy. Since 2009, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring has carried out research to define efficient sustainability indicators from the assessment of tree and bush flora biodiversity and faunal biodiversity, in addition to proposing forest management actions.

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013

Geospatial information are necessary for planning and decision making, resources management, and for the creation of public policies. Disseminating geoinformation is strategically relevant to strengthen Brazilian agriculture and to transfer the knowledge produced by Embrapa to the society. The deployment of a structure for the digital storage of spatial data and metadata enables the long-term preservation of geoinformation and its curation, manipulation and integration, thus avoiding duplicat

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

Legal norms and market behavior demand a new posture when facing the environment of various economical factors. In the forest sector, this posture has been defined through the restructuring of the use and occupation of cultivated areas with commercial forests, promoting the environmental compliance of productive activities. This reorganization of rural areas, and areas of permanent preservation and legal reserves which were improperly occupied by forest activities, and thus opposing current legi

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

This project has developed approaches of analysis, categorization and disclosure of information regarding agricultural development in centers with expressive production of soy and sugarcane, and with focus on their relationship between land use and occupation dynamics, agricultural practices and other environmental and socio-economic variables. In the agro-environmental sense, the analysis and mapping were focused in processes of agricultural development, highlighting the importance of the secon

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

The TerraClass project, a partnership between Embrapa and the National Institute of Space Research (Inpe) initiated in 2010, was created to produce a new outlook, based on scientific and impartial data, on the use and cover of deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon region, as per annually identified by Inpe's Prodes program. The first maps generated by the project, referring to the use and cover of lands deforested by 2008, 2010, and 2012, respectively, established a starting point for the und

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

The project aims at assessing methods and innovative techniques in the area of Remote Sensing and spatial data integration for detection in cultivation practices and production systems, especially integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems (ICLFs) and variations, which constitute one of the key points of the low carbon agriculture policy.
On a local scale, the goal is to evaluate the potential of new techniques and methodologies that apply to the new Sentinel 2 sensor with regard to the det ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

A country's sovereignty is directly related to ensuring the three types of security: food, energy, and territorial security. Basically, food security and renewable energy security depend on agriculture and its water resources. Brazil, which contains about 12% of the world availability of water resources, is a privileged country in view of the possibility of using these resources in different sectors, of which the agricultural sector, as a broad concept that involves agriculture, husbandry, and f

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