Fenologia remota: uso de imagens digitais no acompanhamento fenológico de plantas em uma área de cerrado sensu stricto, no município de Itirapina, São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Alberton, Bruna de Costa [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Plant ecology; Ecologia vegetal; Fenologia; Botânica; Câmeras fotográficas digitais; Imagens digitais; Analise foliar; Cerrados; Itirapina (SP)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108715

Plant phenology is a traditional science to observe recurring events in plant life cycles and their relation mainly to climate, as well as to biotic factors and phylogeny. Leafing in plants defines the growth season and controls crucial ecosystems processes such as nutrient cycling, water storage, and carbon balance, regulating the productivity in terrestrial ecosystems and the dynamics of carbon sequestration. Phenological studies have been efficiently applied to track environmental changes, answering questions about the current scenario of global climate change and stimulating the search for innovative tools of plant monitoring. The use of satellite imagery and digital cameras has being considered as alternative methods of observation of phenological changes. The technique of taken repeated photographs using digital cameras has increased due the low cost investment, reduction in size to set up installation, and the possibility of dealing with high resolution data, making digital cameras reliable tools for a range of ecological applications. Therefore, regular digital cameras have been effectively used as three-channel imaging sensors, providing measures of leaf color change or phenological shifts in plants largely on North Hemisphere and in temperate vegetation types. We monitored a species rich Brazilian cerrado savanna to assess the reliability of digital images to detect leaf-changing patterns aiming to answer the following questions: (i) Do digital cameras capture leaf changes in tropical cerrado savanna vegetation? (ii) Can we detect differences on phenological changes among species crowns and the cerrado community? (iii) Is the greening pattern detected for each species crown by digital cameras validated by our on-the-ground leafing phenology (direct observation of tree leaf changes)? Since digital camera phenology generate a large amount of data, to explore computational tools that could support phenology studies we applied machine..