Ocorrências de focos de calor em regiões associadas à agricultura no município de Corrente (PI)

Abstract

Considering the globalization of agricultural production, the agricultural sector, commercialization and world consumption, it is noticeable that we have gone through intense advances in technologies, before that the city of Corrente is classified as an economic power focused on agricultural activity, being the main center in Piauí state, , thus the goal of this work was to operationalize a space-time analysis of the manifestations of active fires in the Municipality of Corrente, extreme south of the Piauí state , in the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020, seeking to evaluate the relation of these carrying out agricultural practices. The data are generated from satellite images, the active fires for this study being derived from the processing and integration of daily data from the NOAA-12 and AQUA_M-T satellites. The survey indicated that in the years 2005 and 2010, there were the highest rates of active fires, with 210 and 364, respectively. The highest incidence of fires occurred in the eastern, western and central regions of Corrente, which intensifies the fires in these regions. In this way, throughout the temporal analysis of the points of incidence, there is identification of the places most affected by fire, thus existing a relation between the fires and the expansion of agriculture in the municipality of Corrente