Spectral Calculation for Carbon Stock Estimation in Fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Case Study Carried Out in the Environmental Protection Area of Guadalupe on the Southern Coast of the State of Pernambuco -BR (original) (raw)

Today, the fragmentation of the Atlantic Forest represents a limiting factor for the survival of several species and for the maintenance of the biodiversity and functionality of this ecosystem. Despite this, the Atlantic Forest has a great capacity for resilience and carbon stock, which justifies its successive self-regeneration and vigor. Understanding this ability to stockpile carbon is extremely important to assist in the conservation actions of forest remnants. In this perspective, the spectral calculation of CO2Flux translates the integration of the photochemical reflectance index (PRI and SPRI) that spectrally reproduces the efficiency of the use of light in photosynthesis and in turn the NDVI that spectrally describes the vigor of the vegetation synthetically active. One circumstance to be considered is that the CO2Flux methodology is not destructive, that is, it is not necessary to cut trees to estimate aspects related to carbon stock. In addition to the bibliographic research, to perform the spectral calculation methodology of CO2Flux,