Mapping of wildfire in Pantanal biome and Upper Paraguay Basin between 2018 and 2019.

Abstract

In the Upper Paraguay Basin and Pantanal biome region, forest burning is widely practiced especially for traditional communities and rural producers to growth stimulate pastures and create new agricultural land, leading to loss of nutrients, compaction, and soil erosion, affecting native forest areas. This article aimed to evaluate the fire monitoring service of DPI/INPE/BD Queimadas (Image Processing Division/National Institute for Space Research/Wildfire Database), with MOD13Q1 and MCD64A1 products of MODIS sensor, to provide a perspective to prevent wildfire, especially areas with forest remnants and, consequently, to the environmental quality. Results showed that wildfires often occur in the months from July to October and more intensely in the year 2019, the monitoring of changes in vegetation using the MOD13Q1 and MCD64A1 are alternative products for monitoring environmental changes, because of the spatial resolutions, atmospheric correction, and the free distribution. For that, it is possible to predict the intensity of forest fires events, allowing public managers to develop manners to prevent wildfire in the biome.