Deforestation Part 2: Database

Pedro R. Andrade

São José dos Campos, 2013

Brazilian Amazonia

Source: PRODES (INPE)

PRODES - Deforestation in Amazonia

What drives deforestation?

What drives deforestation?

Protected Areas Ports

RoadsDeforestation

Cellular Spaces

Amazonia Database

TerraView version 4.2.0 Create a database Import four shapefiles and one tif Create a Layer of Cells Fill cells plugin to create attributes Visualize the attributes

Create another Layer of cells with 50x50km and compute the same attributes again

Filling the CellularSpace

Theme Operation Attribute

PROTECTED_AREAS Percentage of total area protected

PORTS Minimum distance dist_ports

ROADS Minimum distance dist_roads

BIOMASS Percentage of Each Class biomass_

PRODES Percentage of Each Class defor_