Mapping of Environmental Riverine Sensitivity Index to Oil Spills
in the Monte Alegre, Pa, Brazil, using Rapideye image processing
Environmental Fluvial sensitivity index. Environmental sensitivity to oil
mapping. Amazon river. Fluvial geomorphology.
Accidents involving the spilling of oil into water bodies affect both the environment and
the socioeconomic resources of the local population. In this sense, the results of this dissertation
intends to corroborate in the identification of physical environments more sensitive to oil
contamination applying a classification of environmental sensitivity indexes to oil for fluvial
environments (ISF). In this study, the river system of the municipality of Monte Alegre (Pa)
was mapped, in which field surveys were performed in two seasons: rainy and dry, with
collection of sedimentary samples and surveys of marginal geomorphological and geological
characteristics, which were recorded with photos. A land use and vegetation cover map,
classified in the e-Cognition software and Kappa index of 85%, corroborated the ISF
classification, which allowed us to identify that the index 10b, characterized by flooded
vegetation and alluvial deposits, was present in 245.02 km2 of the studied area, which
corresponds to 61.43% of the total, being the most recurrent in the study area considered with
high environmental sensitivity to oil.