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Research Projects

As part of the program’s lines of research, PPGSR professors coordinate dozens of research projects, many of them funded by funding agencies such as FINEP, CNPq, CAPES and FAPERGS.

CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOINFORMATION SCIENCE

  • Three-dimensional representation and modeling of geospatial data to support the mapping of risk areas; Coordinator: Andrea Lopes Iescheck.
  • Establishment of Standards for Basic Scales and Symbology for Systematic Terrestrial Mapping according to the Characteristics of Urban and Rural Landscapes in Brazilian Biomes; Coordinator: Claudia Robbi Sluter.
  • Integrated Analysis and Training in the Acquisition and Structuring of Geographic Data; Coordinator: Tatiana Silva da Silva.
  • Participatory GIS to support management and decision-making in conservation units: Taim Ecological Station; Coordinator: Tatiana Silva da Silva.
  • Application of remote sensors in cartography; Coordinator: Claudia Robbi Sluter.
  • Studies on social vulnerability through the eyes of cartography and urbanism; Coordinator: Andrea Lopes Iescheck.

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

  • Subsidies for crop monitoring and forecasting programs in Rio Grande do Sul using remote sensing techniques and agrometeorological modeling; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Space-time pattern of the energy balance in cultivated areas in Rio Grande do Sul; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Study of the dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere using remote sensing and geoprocessing techniques; Coordinator: Rita de Cássia Marques Alves.
  • Monitoring of agrometeorological elements by satellites; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Evaluation, monitoring and forecasting of air quality in the region of the industrial complex of Rio Grande – RS; Coordinator: Rita de Cássia Marques Alves.

SATELLITE GEODESY

  • Geocentric monitoring of coastal sea level supported by GPS/GNSS; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.
  • Mass sea level monitoring with reflectometric GPS tide gauges; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.
  • Hybrid GNSS/tide gauge stations using the multipath reflectometry technique; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.
  • New generation of reflectometric GPS sensors for sea level monitoring; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.
  • Study of satellites used to map the gravity field (CHAMP, GRACE and GOCE missions); Coordinator: Sergio Florencio de Souza.
  • Study of geoid and quasi-geoid separation in Brazilian territory; Coordinator: Sergio Florencio de Souza.
  • IAG/GGOS Joint Working Group 4.3.9 on GNSS Reflectometry; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski;
  • Coastal sea level monitoring using GPS/GNSS reflectometry at high altitudes; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.
  • TideSat – a geodetic remote sensing startup; Coordinator: Felipe Geremia Nievinski.

IMAGE PROCESSING

  • Development of new methodologies for classifying digital images (pattern recognition); Coordinator: Daniel Capella Zanotta.
  • Mapping and classifying wetlands using remote sensing and data mining, Pampa Biome; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.

APPLIED REMOTE SENSING

  • Elaboration of the municipal risk reduction plan for Porto Alegre/RS. Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Modeling spatial dynamics to generate scenarios for changes in land use and cover in the state of Rio Grande do Sul; Coordinator: Marcos Wellausen Dias de Freitas.
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) coupled with small format cameras for use in geomorphological modeling and geological problems; Coordinator: Cláudio Wilson Mendes Júnior.
  • Generation of indicators for monitoring and forecasting crops; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Mapping for wetland conservation strategies aimed at mitigating and resilience to climate disasters, metropolitan region of Porto Alegre – RS; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.
  • Relationship between flood areas and leptospirosis in Rio Grande do Sul, based on geoprocessing; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.
  • Thermal infrared radiative transfer processes; Coordinator: Silvia Beatriz Alves Rolim.
  • Geoprocessing applied to environmental management; Coordinator: Tatiana Silva da Silva.
  • Applications of Remote Sensing and Geoprocessing to Disaster Risk Management; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Modeling spatial dynamics to generate scenarios of changes in land use and cover (CENÁRIOS); Coordinator: Marcos Wellausen Dias de Freitas.
  • Machine learning and geotechnologies for spatial prediction of floods and mass movements; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Wetlands: mapping and object-based classification from remote sensing in Rio Grande do Sul; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.
  • Brazilian biomes by remote sensing; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.
  • Development of integrated spatial models for mapping and simulating areas susceptible to extreme hydro-meteorological events; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Development and testing of methodologies for monitoring and forecasting crops in Brazil. Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Integration of remote sensing and in situ data in the analysis of tectono-sedimentary evolution in the cretaceous-quaternary in the southern portion of the Paraná basin, southern brazil; Coordinator: Clódis de Oliveira Andrades Filho.
  • Game of trump satellites and sensors: a card for the extension and teaching of remote sensing; Coordinator: Clódis de Oliveira Andrades Filho.
  • Mapping of Rio Grande do Sul using satellite images; Coordinator: Claudio Wilson Mendes Junior.
  • Spatial forecasting of extreme hydrological events: new approaches that integrate geotechnologies and remote sensing with hydrological and machine learning models; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Port Environmental Management Program – Port of Porto Alegre; Coordinator: Tatiana Silva da Silva.
  • Radiometry support, monitoring and surveying by remote sensing in the R.G.S.; Coordinator: José Eduardo da Silveira Costa.
  • Remote sensing applied to geosciences; Coordinator: Laurindo Antonio Guasselli.
  • Remote sensing of vegetation; Coordinator: Tatiana Mora Kuplich.
  • Remote sensing generating indices for monitoring vegetation dynamics and variability; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Development of strategies for prevention, warning and response to extreme geo-hydrological events to reduce the risks associated with floods, torrents and mass movements in the Taquari-Antas River Basin; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Elaboration of the municipal risk reduction plan for Porto Alegre/RS. Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.
  • Remote sensing of vegetation; Coordinator: Tatiana Mora Kuplich.
  • Remote sensing generating indices for monitoring vegetation dynamics and variability; Coordinator: Denise Cybis Fontana.
  • Development of strategies for prevention, warning and response to extreme geo-hydrological events to reduce risks associated with floods, torrents and mass movements in the Taquari-Antas River Basin; Coordinator: Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira.

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