TECHNICS OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM 
APPLIED IN CLIMATE ACTION PROJECT IN EAST COAST OF PARANA STATE 
R. Wodzynski, D. Schmidlin, M. Prestes 
SPVS - Society of Research in Wild Life, Gutemberg, 296 Curitiba - PR, Brazil 
E-mail: labsig@spvs.org.br 
Commission VII, WG VII/6 
KEY WORDS: Climate, Global, GIS, Application, Photogrammetry 
ABSTRACT: 
The SPVS, Society of Research in Wild Life executes, among others activities, with partnership of the TNC (The Nature 
Conservancy) and financing of Texaco, General Motors and American Electric Power (AEP), three projects of Action Against the 
Global Change, in a 40 year duration. These projects are The Guaraqueçaba Climate Action Project (7 thousand hectares), The 
Atlantic Rainforest Restoration Project (10 thousand hectares) and The Antonina Pilot Reforestation Project (one thousand 
hectares). The objectives of the projects are the forest restoration of degraded areas, enrichment of secondary forests, protection of 
forests (under deforestation risk), conservation of biodiversity, sustainable development and prodution of carbon credits. These 
projects are located in the EPA of Guaraqueçaba (Environmental Protection Area), coastal north portion of Parana state in south 
Brazil. The project activities have been divided in three groups: feasibility study, planning & development and execution phase. The 
LABSIG, Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems of SPVS, participated in all of these three phases. By the phase of 
planning & development, the definition of the line base in the work area - EPA of Guaraqueçaba — were launched, with a 
Multitemporal Study of the land use based on orbital images. The environment compartmentation of the area was executed, with the 
generation of the geoambiental map as subsidy to the planning of the projects. This work consisted in the delimitation of zones with 
similar characteristics from the overlapping of the subjects in a GIS (soil, geology, relief, climate, hydrography and hydrogeology). 
After the definition of the areas, photogrammetrics surveys in scale 1:30,000 and digital orthophotos in scale 1:10,000 have been 
done. During this phase agrarian surveys still have been made as subsidy to the prospection and acquisition of areas, as well as to the 
definitive mapping of the projects areas, with perimeters and memorials for agrarian regularization. As orientation to the 
prospection, the degraded areas were maped and quantified in the interest regions. In the phase of project execution, detailed 
environment surveys have been made for the handling of the reserve, as soil, geology and vegetation in scale 1:10,000. The next 
step, the forest restoration, was defined as a function of priority areas and attendance of matrices and plantation. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
   
The SPVS — Society of Research in Wild Life, is a non- ue | udi 
governmental organization located at Curitiba, State of . "e P 
Paraná, south region of Brazil, actuating as a technical- b er 
  
scientifical organization founded in 1984. Since march 2001 
SPVS has the title OSCIP (Public Interest Civil Society 
Organization). The NGO from Paranä State, recognized as 
one of the most important in Brazil, has the mission “work 
for the conservation of nature through the protection of 
native areas, by environmental education actions and by 
development of models aimed to the rational utilization of 
natural resources”. Its actuation today is focused in the 
Araucaria Forests and Natural Fields, as well as in the 
Guaraquecaba region, north seashore of Paranä State — an 
area that contain the major contiguous remnant of Brazilian 
Atlantic Rainforest. 
    
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Figure 1: Paranä State location 
In order to accomplish its efforts, the institution counts on the 
support from governmental agencies, NGOs and private 
enterprises. With this partnership, the SPVS runs after to 
come attention to achieve investments for the environmental 
cause as a way to add value to its businness, whose work 
already counts on more than 25 official partners. It’s 
acknowledged by the quality of its work, performed by more 
than 100 employees - of the technical area (Biology, Forest 
Engineering, Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine, Geology and 
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