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About the project

The JAPI Project, funded by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção and launched in July 2011, has as its main objective to structure and consolidate environmental information that helps characterize and monitor coastal environments, with an emphasis on the mangrove ecosystem, through the use of remote sensing and environmental computational modeling in the southern coastal region of Bahia, which includes the municipalities of Belmonte, Canavieiras and Una.

To this end, environmental sensitivity maps for oil spills will be prepared for different hydrodynamic and atmospheric scenarios, with the aim of supporting environmental management in the region of interest, assisting in mitigation and/or remediation activities for possible impacts generated by Oil and Gas Industry activities. In addition, a regionalized climate scenario associated with the Climate Change process will be generated.

The project is being carried out by professionals from the Environmental Studies Center of the Institute of Geosciences of the Federal University of Bahia (NEA/IGEO/UFBA), which is responsible, among other activities, for the field collection of geochemical, biological and socioeconomic data, and by LAMCE, through the Environmental Modeling Center (NUMA) and the Center for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the Oil Industry. In situ environmental data collection has been carried out systematically and continuously by professionals from the oceanographic consulting company PROOCEANO.

Technology and
Monitoring
for the Prevention of environmental accidents
Map showing the location of the study area.
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LAMCE's role in the project

LAMCE's team of researchers is responsible for two areas of work:

Computational Environmental Modeling
Responsibility of the Environmental Modeling Core

Remote Sensing
Responsibility of the Center for Radar Remote Sensing Applied to the Oil Industry

The characterization of the environmental dynamics of coastal ecosystems for the region of interest to the JAPI Project is carried out in such a way as to include different environmental scenarios, developed according to the characteristics of the tides, winds and river discharge of the main rivers in the region. These processes represent the main environmental drivers for the hydrodynamics of the region.

In addition to the environmental scenarios already defined, the aim is to study and characterize possible changes in atmospheric and marine processes resulting from climate change scenarios. To do so, a computational experiment was defined based on a critical greenhouse gas emissions scenario defined by the IPCC.

Environmental Scenarios
LAMCE's main objectives in the Japi Project
Research and organize existing geographic data to implement the geographic information system for the study area;
Collect and structure oceanographic and meteorological information to help characterize and monitor the region using local and remote sensors;
Elaborate environmental scenarios based on hydrodynamic and atmospheric computer simulations for the study area;
Study the regionalized influence of climate change on the marine hydrodynamics of the study area;
Integrating environmental, socio-economic and biological data to draw up Environmental Sensitivity Charts for oil spills (SAO Charts).
Oceanographic measurements and products generated in the project's area of interest

Since December 2012, LAMCE researchers, in partnership with the oceanographic consulting company PROOCEANO, have been acquiring and analyzing oceanographic data in the region of interest to the JAPI project. In addition to contributing to a better understanding of local oceanographic dynamics, these data are used to develop and improve computational models that represent the marine hydrodynamics of the region of interest.

The data collected are:

Speed and direction of surface marine currents;
Wave height and direction;
River flow;
Sea surface temperature.
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LAMCE's team at Project JAPI

Adriano Vasconcelos
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Carlos Henrique Beisl
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Hatsue Takanaca de Decco
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Luiz Landau
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Luiz Paulo de Freitas Assad
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Rafael Henrique Oliveira Rangel
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Rafael Vieira Campos
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Raquel Toste Ferreira dos Santos
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The name Japi was chosen because of a bird seen in the region of interest to the Project, the southern coast of Bahia. Japi is a bird from the Icteridae family whose name in Tupi-Guarani can mean "one who is noisy; noisy individual" and/or "the headwaters; the springs".

Some photos of the study region