Mapping by remote sensing of sources in the municipality of Piumhi – Minas Gerais

Abstract

The municipality of Piumhi, located in the center-west of the state of Minas Gerais, receives a significant number of tourists due to the natural landscapes in its area and neighboring cities, such as waterfalls, canyons, among others, also for its production of cheese and dairy products, which are national highlights. With this, the city's springs will be studied, to obtain information from as many watercourses as possible and with that to prepare maps of the place with the information contained in these springs. The maps obtained will be able to help residents, researchers, tourists, students, and anyone interested in contributing to the place, adding a greater socioeconomic value to the municipality and its region, consequently causing the arrival of more tourists to this area, as well. contributing to future studies in the environmental area, serving as a location for preventing water courses and cleaning streams, having various public, scientific, social, and even tourist purposes, contributing to everyone around it, and also to environmental sustainability.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/tfisdwv1-006