Estudo da dinâmica do fogo na área da Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins: uso de técnicas de sensoriamento remoto

Abstract

The present research deals with an analysis of the Estação Ecológica Serra Geral do Tocantins, located between the states of Tocantins and Bahia, with the main objective of investigating the fire action, before and after its creation, that is, between 1998 and 2015. The methodology used was the Remote Sensing with which different techniques were applied to observe the fire action based on the Regional Aspects, NDVI, Heat Sources and Fire Scars (burnings and forest fires) and Recurrence of these areas. A set of Landsat Sensor-TM and Ressourcesat-1 satellite images from 1998, 2001, 2007, 2012 and 2015 were obtained in the dry period between June and October. As the QGis and ArcGIS® software were applied Standardized Vegetation Difference Index (NDVI) that allowed the identification of areas affected by fire, which were measured or confirmed with the overlap of heat fires and visual observation of a color composition (RGB) satellite imagery. n the same direction a supervised classification of satellite images was carried out, which allowed the identification and the design of the fire scars and consequently the fire action in the research area. Among the results obtained, it can be observed that in 1998 the fire action corresponded to about 50% of area, in 2001 about 46%, in 2007 about 68%, in the year of 2012 about 54% and 2015 about 41%. In general, it can be observed a reduction of the fire action in the area of the EESGT in the last years, which may be associated the “factors to the different forms” of fire management, which needs to be deepened with the progress of new researches. It was also possible to observe that before the creation of the unit, until the year 2001, the values corresponding to the action of the fire (50 and 46%) did not reduce, after the creation of the unit, in the year of 2007 (68%) yes they increased. However, in recent years there has been a reduction in the fire action for the years 2012 and 2015 (54 and 41%), which is a positive sign for the conservation of the Cerrado and maintenance of the unit's function.