@InProceedings{SantosPardSouz:2006:ApHaAn,
               author = "Santos, Jo{\~a}o Roberto dos and Pardi Lacruz, Mar{\'{\i}}a 
                         Silvia and Souza Junior, Manoel Ara{\'u}jo",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Applicability of harmonic analysis in a MODIS/TERRA dataset for 
                         monitoring land use/land cover in brazilian Amazonia",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2006",
         organization = "IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 
                         (IGARSS).",
             keywords = "harmonic analysis, EVI/MODIS, Amazon, landuse/land cover.",
             abstract = "In the last two decades, the Brazilian Amazon has suffered 
                         important changes of land cover/land use dynamics in response to 
                         human activities, resulting in a gross deforestation rate of 
                         25,000 km2/year and consequently loss and fragmentation of 
                         habitat, which are the major threats to biological diversity. The 
                         situation is particularly severe in the tropical regions, where 
                         human populations are growing rapidly and economic pressures 
                         result in extended conversion of tropical forests to a mosaic of 
                         modified habitats. Advances in remote sensing technology opened 
                         new opportunities to evaluate the dynamics of land cover in the 
                         temporal domain, and the results frequently are better than the 
                         spatial and spectral domains. Thus, it is recommended to improve 
                         the temporal resolution instead of the spatial resolution. The 
                         objective of this work is to evaluate the applicability of 
                         harmonic analysis MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time 
                         series composites as a tool for vegetation studies and tropical 
                         landscape monitoring in the Gurupi Biological Reserve. We 
                         concluded that the harmonic analysis, together with EVI time 
                         series data, is a very useful tool to monitor, map and model the 
                         change evolution of land use/land cover classes, specially in vast 
                         areas such as the Amazon region, where the access sometimes is 
                         difficult and it is necessary to know and monitor the activities 
                         being developed on it, because of its economic, social and 
                         environmental importance.",
  conference-location = "Piscataway, NJ, EUA",
                label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTIC-GOV-BR",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "santos_applicability.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "08 maio 2024"
}