@InCollection{LoboNovoBarbVasc:2019:MoWaSi,
author = "Lobo, Felipe de Lucia and Novo, Evlyn M{\'a}rcia Le{\~a}o de
Moraes and Barbosa, Cl{\'a}udio Clemente Faria and Vasconcelos,
Vitor Hugo Fernandes de",
title = "Monitoring water siltation caused by small-scale gold mining in
Amazonian rivers using multi-satellite images",
booktitle = "Limnology: some new aspects of inland water ecology",
publisher = "IntechOpen",
year = "2019",
editor = "Gokce, D.",
pages = "79--94",
keywords = "total suspended solids, water quality, remote sensing.",
abstract = "The small-scale mining techniques applied all over the Amazon
river basin use water from streams, including digging and riverbed
suctioning, rarely preventing environmental impacts or recovery of
the impacted areas. As a consequence, thousands of tons of
inorganic sediment (which can contain mercury) have been
discharged directly into the rivers creating sediment plumes that
travel hundreds of kilometers downstream with unknown consequences
to the water quality and aquatic biota. We hypothesize that
because of intensification of mining activities in the Brazilian
Amazon, clear water rivers such as the Tapaj{\'o}s and Xingu
rivers and its tributaries are becoming permanently turbid waters
(so-called white waters in the Amazonian context). To investigate
this hypothesis, satellite images have been used to monitor the
sediment plume caused by gold mining in Amazonian rivers. Given
the threat of intense water siltation of the Amazonian rivers
combined with the technological capacity of detecting it from
satellite images, the objective of this chapter is to inform the
main activities carried out to develop a monitoring system for
quantifying water siltation caused by small-scale gold mining
(SSGM) in the Amazon rivers using multi-satellite data.",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
doi = "10.5772/intechopen.79725",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.79725",
isbn = "9781838807887",
label = "lattes: 9857505876280820 2
LuciaLoboM{\'a}rcClemHugo:2019:MoWaSi",
language = "pt",
targetfile = "lobo_monitoring.pdf",
url = "https://www.intechopen.com/books/limnology-some-new-aspects-of-inland-water-ecology/monitoring-water-siltation-caused-by-small-scale-gold-mining-in-amazonian-rivers-using-multi-satelli",
volume = "1",
urlaccessdate = "20 abr. 2024"
}