Open AccessMapeamento geológico-geotécnico preliminar, utilizando geoprocessamento, no município de Campos dos Goytacazes, Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Author(s) -
Aline Nogueira Costa,
Helena Polivanov,
Maria da Glória Alves
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anuário do instituto de geociências
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1982-3908
pISSN - 0101-9759
DOI - 10.11137/2008_1_50-64
Subject(s) - geoprocessing , geography , geodiversity , hydrology (agriculture) , geology , flooding (psychology) , drainage basin , forestry , water resource management , geomorphology , cartography , environmental science , geotechnical engineering , psychology , psychotherapist , biodiversity , ecology , biology
Campos dos Goytacazes County is located on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro State. The city of Campos dos Goytacazes was developed on a flooding plain and due to the fragility of the physical environment; the city has been suffering serious environmental problems. The methodology used base in acquisition of data bank, remote sensoring techniques, Field Information and application of SIG ArcGis9. In a first step, the themes geology, pedology and geomorphology units was overlaying, where could obtain a Geological-Geotechnical Units Map, with lowed and elevated units, the which had been defined in accordance with its characteristics. The purpose of this map, as well as the objective of the work is to plan the territory for the future generations