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The semi arid region in northeastern Brazil, and over particularly , the mesoregions termed
Cariri Serid and Curimata, where volumes annually precipitates are smaller than Brazil, have
an inherent to the process of desertification potential.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the temperature of Earth's surface (TST) physical
parameter, which among other parameters as surface albedo, soil salinity, vegetation index used as indicators of desertification process parameters. Such analysis is performed by
identifying the space-time evolution of the parameter in question.
The town of Caic-RN, is inserted into the Serid, and, in general, this region is subject to the
processes of desertification. An amount of four satellite images Landsat 5 TM sensor (Thematic
Mapper), each composed of seven spectral bands were used For this paper.
The scenes used for the study are all from 215orbit, and points - 64 and 65. To calculate the
parameter studied mosaics were used in two scenes, the first mosaic is the date of 8/13/1987,
and the second 12 / 10/2003, all images are available in the virtual site of INPE
(http://www.dgi.inpe.br/CDSR).
Based on these images, the surface temperature parameter, presented in the form of maps
was calculated, and the frequency histograms of the pixels and summarized in tabular form.
And then was generated map image-difference for this parameter.
The results showed that have been changes in the surface temperature parameter increase in
their values when compared to two years.