GIS applied to location of fires detection towers in domain area of tropical forest.
In most countries, the loss of biodiversity caused by the fires is worrying. In this sense, the fires detection towers are crucial for rapid identification of fire outbreaks and can also be used in environmental inspection, biodiversity monitoring, telecommunications mechanisms, telemetry and others. Currently the methodologies for allocating fire detection towers over large areas are numerous, complex and non-standardized by government supervisory agencies. Therefore, this study proposes and evaluates different methodologies to best location of points to install fire detection towers considering the topography, risk areas, conservation units and heat spots. Were used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques and unaligned stratified systematic sampling for implementing and evaluating 9 methods for allocating fire detection towers. Among the methods evaluated, the C3 method was chosen, represented by 140 fire detection towers, with coverage of: a) 67% of the study area, b) 73.97% of the areas with high risk, c) 70.41% of the areas with very high risk, d) 70.42% of the conservation units and e) 84.95% of the heat spots in 2014. The proposed methodology can be adapted to areas of other countries.
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: coelho.fernando@yahoo.com.br.
Fernando Coelho
FC
Eugenio
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: alexandre.santos@pq.cnpq.br.
Alexandre
A
Rosa Dos Santos
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: fiedler@cnpq.pq.br.
Nilton Cesar
NC
Fiedler
Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, Graduate Program in Forest Science, Avenida P. H. Rolfs; s/n, Campus Universitário, 36570-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: gribeiro@ufv.br.
Guido Assunção
GA
Ribeiro
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: agsilva@yahoo.com.br.
Aderbal Gomes
AG
da Silva
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: ronie_juvanhol@hotmail.com.
Ronie Silva
RS
Juvanhol
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Geology, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000 Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: schettino.vitor@gmail.com.
Vitor Roberto
VR
Schettino
Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Science, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n, 36570-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: gustavomarcatti@gmail.com.
Gustavo Eduardo
GE
Marcatti
Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Science, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n, 36570-000 Viçosa, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: getulio.floresta@gmail.com.
Getúlio Fonseca
GF
Domingues
Federal University of Viçosa/UFV, PostGraduate Programme in Agrochemistry, Av. Peter Henry Rolfs, s/n, 36570-000 Viçosa, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: gleissym@yahoo.com.br.
Gleissy Mary Amaral Dino
GMAD
Alves Dos Santos
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Forest Sciences, Av. Governador Lindemberg, 316, 29550-000 Jerônimo Monteiro, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: pezzopane2007@yahoo.com.br.
José Eduardo Macedo
JEM
Pezzopane
University of Barcelona, Department of Vegetal Biology, Faculty of Biology, Av. Diagonal, 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: bduguy@ub.edu.
Beatriz Duguy
BD
Pedra
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, Department of Biology, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000 Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: aureobs@gmail.com.
Aureo
A
Banhos
Federal University of Espírito Santo/UFES, PostGraduate Programme in Plant Production, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000 Alegre, ES, Brazil. Electronic address: deleon_lima@hotmail.com.
Lima Deleon
LD
Martins
D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005390:Fires; D065928:Forests; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D014197:Trees
Atlantic forest; Conservation units; Forest fire prevention; Geotechnology