Esta tese teve como principal objetivo caracterizar a expansão da agroindústria canavieira e a sua dinâmica na região Sudoeste de Goiás, descrevendo os impactos sobre o uso do solo e sobre as culturas selecionadas, que são arroz, algodão, cana-de-açúcar, feijão, milho, soja e sorgo....

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Thesis presented to the Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação - ICMC-USP, as part of the doctoral exam requisites of the Doctorage Program in Computer Science and Computacional Mathematics....

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Brazil is an important sugar cane producer, which is the main resource for ethanol production, a renewable source of energy. This agricultural commodity is important to the country economy, becoming fundamental to improve models that assist the crops monitoring process. Vegetation indexes originated from remote sensing images and agrometeorological indexes can be combined to represent sugar cane f...

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O objetivo deste trabalho é promover uma reflexão relacionada às características da evolução científica e institucional do campo científico da Meteorologia que possibilitaram, a partir de meados do século XX, a utilização de modelos matemáticos para fins de previsão do tempo....

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This study’s overarching aim is to establish the areal extent and characteristics of the rapid sugarcane expansion and land use change in São Paulo state (Brazil) as a result of an increase in the demand for ethanol, using Landsat type remotely sensed data....

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Ethanol has recently been of great interest worldwide because it is a viable economic alternative to
petroleum products and it is a renewable source of energy that mitigates the emission of greenhouse
gases. Brazilian bioethanol from sugarcane is the most successful case at the world level because of its
low cost and low level of greenhouse gas emissions. Brazil’s success with...

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