Rodrigo Mikosz Gonçalves- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Federal University of Pernambuco
Rodrigo Mikosz Gonçalves
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Federal University of Pernambuco
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Introduction
he is an associate professor of Environmental Geoinformatics at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, and a permanent member of the Geodetic Science and Technology of Geoinformation Post Graduate Program (UFPE). He has research experience in the field of environmental geodesy, with specific focus on: coastal mapping, shoreline monitoring and modelling.
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Education
July 2014 - July 2015
July 2008 - July 2009
March 2006 - March 2010
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Current approaches for obtaining shoreline change rates suffer from inability to give a specialist interpretation of the numerical results represented by velocities (m/yr). This study proposes a fuzzy model for coastal zone human impact classification that integrates shoreline changes, NDVI, and settlement influences to enhance numerical-linguistic...
Currently, sea turtle habitats are being altered by climate change and human activities, with habitat loss posing an urgent threat to Indian sea turtles. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the dynamic shoreline alterations and their impacts on Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (ORT) nesting sites in Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary from 1990...
A linha de vegetação é uma feição presente na geomorfologia costeira. Pode ser considerada como um indicativo da posição espacial da linha de costa. Existem diversas formas para mapear a linha de vegetação, cada qual com sua respectiva resolução espacial. Nesta contribuição foram extraídas a linha de vegetação por diferentes métodos, entre eles o u...
The flood-prone scenarios assessment contributes to detecting natural and climate change trends and it is a crucial component of integrated coastal zone management. However, the data acquisition with a high spatial and temporal resolution for a local scale is still a challenge considering that sea-level rise projections are usually represented by g...
Odisha's coastline supports various financial development activities critical to the state and national economies, such as oil and gas, ports and harbors, power plants, fishing, tourism, and mining that continues to not only detriment the coastal ecology but also affect the overall shoreline morphodynamics. The morphological changes are complicated...
No Brasil, é inexpressivo o número de SIGWEBs desenvolvidos para apoiar os Comitês de Bacia Hidrográficas. Nesta pesquisa, em um limite de 485 possíveis sistemas apenas 14 atenderam aos critérios de instrumento para gestão de recursos hídricos. Uma vez selecionados, foi aplicado um ranking de avaliações para identificação dos pontos fortes e fracos...
The lowest water availability area in Brazil is the Northeast Atlantic Eastern Hydrographic Region (NAERH). It plays a fundamental role in the lives of 24.1 million inhabitants spread throughout 874 cities. Drought is recurrent in this semiarid climate, affecting agriculture, biodiversity, the ecosystem and other environmental spheres. Therefore, t...
The detection of coastal vulnerability to erosion is crucial for decision-making regarding the economy, ecology, health, security, among other issues. Most of the studies gather a large data set about physical and anthropogenic interference's on the vulnerability of coastal erosion regions around the world. However, for developing nations like Braz...
Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) is a low-cost and useful alternative to track spatial-temporal variations in a rapidly changing environment. However, there is a lack of studies on beach geomorphology characterization in association with visible spectrum reflectance potentialities. The objective of this study was to embrace this technology...
Most of the studies on sea turtle nesting activity nowadays are focused on the impacts of climate change. However, there is a lack of studies gathering knowledge about the influence of coastal
vulnerability to erosion and settlement to assess sea turtle nesting. This study aims to verify the influence of coastal erosion vulnerability over sea turtl...
This study analyzed the seasonal variation of sedimentary reservoirs in sandy beaches located at the insular margin of a tidal inlet (Itamaracá Island, Pernambuco, Brazil). We measured the sedimentary budget and identified the dominant coastal processes (accretion or erosion) from Dec/2017 to Dec/2018. In six field campaigns by a Remotely Piloted A...
Entre os fatores antrópicos que atuam na alta vulnerabilidade para formação de ilhas de calor estão a relação com a densidade populacional e as mudanças no uso do solo. Neste estudo de caso destaca-se que a cidade do Recife possuí uma alta densidade populacional. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é analisar as variações do índice de vegetação e a tem...
Resumo: Matas ciliares são florestas associadas a córregos, rios e lagos possuindo influência na proteção dos ecossistemas de ações antrópicas. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar as alterações nas áreas de mata ciliar da Caatinga, a partir da sensibilidade espectral dos índices de vegetação (IVs): GNDVI, NDVI e EVI, considerando uma análise es...
This work presents the influence of the spatial resolution on precipitation samples to understand extreme events in the Agreste region of Pernambuco, northeast of Brazil. Among the materials used, the following sources of precipitation data (1998 to 2019) can be cited: The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), the Climatic
Research Unit (CRU)...
The satellite images usage as an environmental monitoring tool has great applicability in several areas. However, still little unexplored for water resources monitoring due to the lack of parameters that correlate water quality and spectral responses. This research evaluates the use of LandSat 8 and Sentinel 2A satellites images for turbidity and t...
The use of remote sensing for coastal features identification along the Brazilian coast is something that has intensified with the
new proposals and methodological perspectives in geosciences field. In this work, high spatial resolution satellite images (WorldView
2) and the maximum likelihood method were used for supervised classification of the f...
Assessment of hydrological mass losses in the northeast Atlantic eastern hydrographic region, brazil. Abstract: Freshwater monitoring globally is fundamental to support decision-making. However, long-term hydrological data for some regions are lacking due to limited of observational networks. Remote sensing products come to aggregate the in situ ob...
Analysing tropopause variability is widely acknowledged to inform the understanding of global/regional warming. Tropopause variability studies are generally undertaken where radiosonde data abound. For the radiosonde data deficient South American continent, taking advantage of atmospheric remote sensing using Global Navigation Satellite Systems - R...
A zona costeira está relacionada a porção continental e oceanica, considerada como dinâmica e complexa, sofre alterações em diversas escalas temporais. As classificações morfodinâmicas das praias são fundamentais para o monitoramento dos ciclos sedimentares, identificando processos temporais de estabilidade, acreção e erosão. Os objetivos deste est...
Este trabalho apresenta uma introdução aos princípios, ideias, vantagens e desvantagens, além de distintos trabalhos que vem utilizando a Lógica Fuzzy como ferramenta de estudo, com foco em Ciências. Lógica é a ciência que tem por objetivo o estudo das leis do raciocínio. A lógica clássica é desde o tempo de Aristóteles onde se baseia na bivalência...
The present study aims to analyze the landscape fragmentation and its temporal evolution considering an interval of 25 years (1990 and 2015), for the metropolitan region of Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil. The satellite images LANDSAT 5 and 8 were used as materials. The images were classified using supervised method, according to seven land use/land cover...
The geodetic shoreline positioning has socioeconomic importance due to decision-making support related to the coastal zone. The Pernambuco state, Brazil, has established a state law no. 14.258/2010 sanctioned as part of Coastal Zone Management State Policy. The state act no. 42.010/2015 enacted the baseline information for Pernambuco shoreline. Con...
The Brazilian coastal zone has undergone geomorphological changes due to the hydrodynamic processes that allied with climate and human induced changes can cause erosion problems. The main goal of the present study was to classify the coastal erosion vulnerability of Piauí State, Brazil, considering three intensities: high, medium or low.
The method...
Abstract: The use of remote sensing for coastal features identification along the Brazilian coast is something that has intensified with the new proposals and methodological perspectives in geosciences field. In this work, high spatial resolution satellite images (WorldView 2) and the maximum likelihood method were used for supervised
classificati...
Abstract:
The geodetic shoreline positioning has socioeconomic importance due to support of
decision-making related to the coastal zone. In Pernambuco state, it was sanctioned the
Coastal Zone Management State Policy, law no. 14.258/2010, whose main objective is
to guidance the natural resources used along the coastal zone. The baseline
informatio...
Nesta contribuição destacam-se o emprego das observações procedentes da missão GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment), TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), estações pluviométricas e níveis de reservatórios in situ aplicadas na avaliação das reservas de água contida na Região Hidrográfica Brasileira do Atlântico Nordeste Oriental. Os...
ABSTRACT. Analysis and detection of anthropogenic changes in the backshore environment of Boa Viagem, Recife, PE, Brazil. Over the past 60 years, Boa Viagem beach in the Recife-PE city has been increasing the urban area near to the shoreline. In the face of more and more buildings up, located on the backshore and even on the beach, coastal erosion...
In most developing countries, data for coastal change and vulnerability assessment is hard to come by due, e.g., to data inaccessibility or incomplete dataset. In some countries, e.g., Liberia, a country that was ravaged by civil war and Ebola epidemic, such extraneous factors prevent direct observations, i.e., “boots on the ground”. This study exa...
After finishing PhD sandwich (Rodrigo) under co-supervision of Professor Bernhard Heck in 2010 at GIK (Geodetic Institute of Geodesy) KIT, new ideas came true to start a laboratory of research dedicated to coastal studies (LACCOST) at Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Also the contact made at GIK with Professor Joseph Awange spreading his i...
A erosão costeira é um fenômeno natural encontrado em diversos ambientes litorâneos, no entanto, a ocupação antrópica desordenada nesses locais pode acarretar a potencialização de processos erosivos. As praias de Piedade e Paiva estão localizadas no litoral do Estado de Pernambuco. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal avaliar a vulnerabi...
A erosão costeira é um fenômeno natural encontrado em diversos ambientes litorâneos em todo o mundo. No entanto, a ocupação antrópica desordenada pode potencializar o processo erosivo, como é o caso do litoral do Estado de Pernambuco, onde 43,8% da população está localizada no ambiente litorâneo que se estende em 187 km ao longo de 13 municípios. O...
A gestão integrada da zona costeira (do inglês Integrated Coastal Zone Management – ICZM) envolve uma abordagem integrada de elementos naturais e antrópicos e deve ser organizada para minimizar os conflitos e utilizar os recursos de forma sustentável. A partir da definição sobre ICZM e demais legislações brasileiras foram identificadas 11 variáveis...
In this paper, the Evolutionary Polynomial Regression data modelling strategy has been applied to study small scale, short-term coastal morphodynamics, given its capability for treating a wide database of known information, non-linearly. Simple linear and multilinear regression models were also applied to achieve a balance between the computational...
For Brazil, a country frequented by droughts and whose rural inhabitants largely depend on groundwater, reliance on isotope for its monitoring, though accurate, is expensive and limited in spatial coverage. We exploit total water storage (TWS) derived from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites to analyse spatial-temporal ground...
ABSTRACT-Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) involves an integrated approach of natural and man-made elements and should be organized to minimize conflicts and use resources in a sustainable way. From the definition of ICZM and other Brazilian laws were identified 11 variables to be part of an evaluation model of integrated coastal management...
Changes in drought around the globe are among the most daunting potential effects of climate change. However, changes in droughts are often not well distinguished from changes in aridity levels. As drought constitutes conditions of aridity, the projected declines in mean precipitation tend to override changes in drought. This results in projections...
The objective of this study was to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution of the shoreline considering an interval of 48 years (1960-2008) for the urban beaches of Pina and Boa Viagem (Recife, PE, Brazil). The multi-temporal shoreline survey was supported by vector analysis using photogrammetric data (1960, 1974, 1981, 1997, scale 1: 6,000) and...
Shoreline monitoring is essential for integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). It provides the necessary information needed to manage the settlement of coastal areas, establishes guidelines for management of socioeconomic activities within the coastal areas, provides information necessary for recovery actions of beach regeneration, and provides a...
A linha de costa é uma feição dinâmica e o conhecimento do seu comportamento posicional no presente, passado e possíveis tendências futuras torna-se fundamental para o planejamento e gestão costeira integrada. O objetivo desta contribuição científica foi avaliar a tendência da linha de costa aplicando o Método dos Mínimos Quadrados em uma série tem...
An island located at Brazil’s Northwest named Ilha de Itamaracá present an area about 66 km², 22 thousand inhabitants and its urban population grows 78% more than rural population. The interaction between humans, earth and ocean generate a dynamic known in coastal zones. The coastal vulnerability to erosion can be caused by hazards and humans impac...
The effective protection of the coastal ecosystem requires a detailed knowledge of the morphological evolution of the coastal environment. Several probabilistic models have been developed in the last decades to implement a reliable statistical forecasting of coastline dynamics. In this work, the non-linear Evolutionary Polynomial Regression (EPR) m...
The coastal zone comprises several features and shapes both natural and artificial, together produce a peculiar dynamic in each region of the planet. Monitoring and mapping this environment is a challenging issuein the field ofgeodetic sciences. Nowadays there are several techniques and equipment to obtain temporal coastal data, among them are vide...
O laboratório de cartografia costeira (LACCOST) da UFPE vem atuando em pesquisas
voltadas para o meio ambiente costeiro e estudos hidrológicos no nível de mestrado objetivando a
formação de recursos humanos na área de ciências geodésicas. O tema principal de estudo abordado neste
artigo é a geodésia ambiental, que pode ser simplificada como a junçã...
To provide information useful in policy formulation and management of drought impacts in Brazil, in this study, a sequence of drought events based on monthly rainfall of 1901-2013 on ~ 25 km x 25 km grid are derived at 4 timescales that include short-timescales (3-month and 6-month) and medium to long-timescales (12-month and 24-month). Subsequentl...
Processos erosivos podem ser identificadas por meio de geoindicadores. O presente estudo classificou geoindicadores decorrentes da erosão no litoral de Pernambuco, no nordeste brasileiro. A metodologia foi baseada na detecção em campo da presença ou ausência de dez indicadores de erosão previamente descritos na literatura como recorrentes no litora...
A classificação da vulnerabilidade aos processos costeiros considerando características
tanto naturais quanto antrópicas serve de subsídio para a Gestão Integrada da Zona Costeira
(GIZC). Nesta contribuição apresenta-se um sistema fuzzy para classificar a vulnerabilidade aos
processos costeiros na região litorânea do Balneário de Pontal do Sul, PR,...
The classification of the vulnerability for coastal processes considering both natural factors and anthropogenic interference can contribute for Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). This contribution develops a fuzzy system to classify the vulnerability of coastal processes in the coastal zone of Pontal do Sul, PR, Brazil. The study area was...
In recent decades, Boa Viagem beach located in the city of Recife-PE and Piedade in Jaboatao dos Guararapes-PE (Brazil) has seen urbanization near the coastline causing changes in social, economic and morphological aspects, where coastal erosion problems are observed. This study uses GNSS (global navigation satellite system) shoreline monitoring ap...
The accelerated process of urban development in Brazil sometimes generates social and environmental vulnerability through spontaneous settlements, which are inhabited by low-income populations. Informal settlements are physical manifestations of urban poverty and intra-urban inequality. This generalization in underdeveloped countries is related to...
The accelerated process of urban development in Brazil sometimes generates social and environmental vulnerability through spontaneous settlements, which are inhabited by low-income populations. Informal settlements are physical manifestations of urban poverty and intra-urban inequality. This generalization in underdeveloped countries is related to...
The advance of urbanization has caused substantial transformations in the social and morphological aspects of coastal areas. The present study aims at modeling data from several sources, such as GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems), and remote sensing and subsequently to provide the spacialization of coastal vulnerability to erosion, by using...
![Fig. 1. Location map of the Lake Naivasha Basin [10].](profile/John-Kiema/publication/247160991/figure/fig1/AS:639808833605632@1529553721124/Location-map-of-the-Lake-Naivasha-Basin-10_Q320.jpg)
![Fig. 2. Lake Naivasha drainage system [10].](profile/John-Kiema/publication/247160991/figure/fig2/AS:639808833585153@1529553721294/Lake-Naivasha-drainage-system-10_Q320.jpg)
![Fig. 3. Annual flower exports from Kenya [32].](profile/John-Kiema/publication/247160991/figure/fig3/AS:639808833605637@1529553721384/Annual-flower-exports-from-Kenya-32_Q320.jpg)
It has been postulated that Lake Naivasha, Kenya, has experienced a rapid decrease (and fluctuations) in its spatial extent and level between the years 2002 to 2010. Many factors have been advanced to explain this, with horticultural and floricultural activities, as well as climatic change, featuring prominently. This study offers a multi-disciplin...
Part of the urban concentration at Recife municipality, capital of Pernambuco State, in Northeastern Brazil is inserted into the coastal zone. Recife according to the census data from 2010 has a population of 1.536.934 inhabitants, distributed in an area of approximately 220 km2. This study aims to investigate the evolution of land use in an area l...
Part of the urban concentration at Recife municipality, capital of Pernambuco State, in Northeastern Brazil is inserted into the coastal zone. Recife according to the census data from 2010 has a population of 1.536.934 inhabitants, distributed in an area of approximately 220 km2. This study aims to investigate the evolution of land use in an area l...
Monitoring and mapping variations in shoreline location
is an activity that can be undertaken using several
different techniques of data collection, e.g.,
photogrammetric restitution, satellite images, LiDAR
(Light Detection and Ranging) or classical topographical
surveys to support coastal environmental protection such
as identifying flood ris...
Monitoring and management of shorelines along populated coastal areas is a very important task, but remains a difficult endeavor. The historical information used for short-term analysis and prediction are always underpinned by uncertainties associated with old data. Predictions of shoreline positions normally depend on the accuracy of the input dat...
Over the past 60 years, Boa Viagem beach in the municipality of Recife-PE has been
urbanized near the shoreline. By the building increasingly on the backshore and even on the beach, there
are problems of coastal erosion. With about 7km of extension this district has been modified by
anthropogenic processes. This paper goals to investigate the evolu...
The shoreline is one of the most dynamic cartographic features in a coastal environment.
There are some indicators of how to mapping the shoreline related to the time of high tide for a specific
day. The comparison of results obtained in coastal monitoring researches becomes important and
investigating the best reliability for shoreline positional...
RESUMO
O Estado de Pernambuco apresenta ao longo de 187 km de extensão de litoral, trechos vulneráveis a erosão costeira. Atualmente a erosão é um problema verificado praticamente em todas as praias do Estado. Esse fenômeno está associado com a interação de vários fatores, dentre eles a ação antrópica. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo verifica...
Este artigo aborda a técnica dos autômatos celulares (AC) aplicada a imagens de sensoriamento remoto multi-temporais. Com regras simples, baseadas em parâmetros formados por relações locais, os AC tentam predizer possíveis tendências de espaços desflorestados, pastos e florestas. A partir de informações extraídas pelo processo de segmentação de ima...
RESUMO Parte da concentração urbana do Município de Recife, Capital do Estado de Pernambuco, está inserida no litoral, localizadas nas praias de Pina e Boa Viagem que totalizam aproximadamente 8,5 km de linha de costa. Recife conforme dados do censo de 2010, conta com uma população de 1.536.934 habitantes, distribuída em uma área de aproximadamente...
This article deal with cellular automata (CA) technique applied to multi-temporal remote sensing images. Using simple rules, based on parameters formed by local relationships, CA try to predict possible trends in deforested areas, pastures and forests. Basic segmentation information for the project was derived from multi-temporal satellite images;...
The NAVSTAR GPS has been applied is several fields, the coastal environment being one of them. The geodetic surveys can be used to study the positional variation that happens in dynamic coastal systems. This paper has the main objective of evaluating the accuracy of GPS kinematics positional methods in a specific sedimentary area located in Mel Isl...
This paper describes different surveys developed by the Spatial Geodetic Laboratory (LAGE) of the Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil, in cooperation with different institutions. The main focus of the studies was the coastal zone, where High Precision GPS techniques (absolute, relative or differential) were applied to give support for the i...
Goncalves, R. M., Vasconcelos, T. L., Barbosa C.C.A, Valdevino, D. S., S, L. A. C. M. and Krueger, C. P., 2011. Study of methods to obtain enviromental maps in a estuary located at Pernambuco state, Brazil. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), 1336 - 1339. Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 Env...
The study of models using geodetic temporal data which can possibly predict the shoreline position is an important task and can significantly contribute to coastal management. The studied area is located at municipality of Matinhos in the Paraná State, Brazil. The temporal shoreline used to test the prediction model is respectively from analog phot...
The coastal region of the State of Paraná, located between the 25º and 26º S parallels and the 48º and 49º W meridians, is formed by the Serra do Mar mountain range, extensive coastal plains and estuary complexes. The objective of this paper is to present some surveys at the coast of Parana State (Brazil) that began in 1996 because of the lack of p...
Maps of shorelines are very useful for providing baseline information required for environmental monitoring in order to control local dynamics. In this regard, accurate positions of shorelines are necessary to enable proper planning of coastal settlements. Due to the dynamic nature of the shorelines, their mapping, definition and subsequent utiliza...
This paper describes a case of classification using high resolution images. A Ikonos II with one meter of ground resolution was used. The objective is to obtain a classified image by hierarquical class and fuzzy rules. Those methods are an alternative to conventional ones. The steps to solution are: the segmentation of the image in hierarchical lev...
This work approaches the study of Cellular Automata to the simulation of Satellite Remote Sensing images applied to modeling environment landscape dynamics. The images were collected by SPOT and Landsat-MSS from one forest in different times. After the geometric correction and images treatment a binary map will be formed by pixels that contain info...
This work approaches the study of Cellular Automata to the simulation of Satellite Remote Sensing Images. The images were collected by Spot and Landsat-MSS from the one forest in different times. After the geometric correction and images treatment a binary map will be formed by pixels that contain informations about the forest existence. The simula...
