Açu Industrial and Port Complex

Project marked by field work with GPS receivers for georeferencing satellite images and metric aerial photographs, as well as processing such data in a cabinet with specialized computer systems. Validation of the quality of LANDSAT, SPOT and IKONOS images, as well as generating a mosaic of photographs for use in analyzing scenarios regarding the evolution of construction and expansion of the project on the coastal plain. Generation of a series of thematic maps drawn from satellite images covering the north of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas.

 

Since 2003, applied research has been carried out involving the spatial area of North Fluminense, with a concentration on digital mapping of coastal processes on the beaches of Atafona (erosion) and Grussaí (progradation), as an important requirement for understanding the dynamic phenomena that, since the 1990s, 50 reaches this coast.

 

With the recent transformations in the coastal plain of the Paraíba do Sul River, observed since 2003, it was decided to launch research activities that took into account the very unstable positional variation in the configuration of sandy beaches and identification of the physical environmental conditions that occur there (agents: winds, waves, tides and coastal current) and that have shaped the coastline for years.

 

Given the implementation of the Açu Port Complex, located in the municipality of São João da Barra (RJ) where these beaches are located, a recent development, characterized by a series of large-scale works, and with significant impacts on coastal environments, was created this project, in the context of the Center for Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development - CEADS/UERJ, as a collective effort work front, with the effective participation of students from UERJ, and also from UFF. Mapping aspects were addressed, also with a medium and long-term vision, promoting the monitoring of impacted environments in the restinga, vegetation and water bodies (lagoons, lakes and rivers), for example.