Geotecnologias aplicadas ao monitoramento da degradação ambiental em perímetros urbanizados

The municipality of São José dos Campos, located on the Paraiba do Sul river valley in the state of São Paulo-Brazil, has expanded in an accelerated way in the last few decades especially the areas South and East, places where problems of urban occupation in improper places do occur. This phenomenon of urban growth most of the time happens in a disorderly fashion, it competes largely for the occupation of unfavorable areas of this type, of land use provoking a series of unbalances to the environment, heavy obligation to the government, and risks to the population. In this way, the present work presents a methodological approach, for the characterization of the urban growth in areas of risk due to potential erosion with the support of the geotechnologies which are constituted by the techniques of remote sensing and geoprocessing.Pages: 1171-117