Volume 59
El Uso de Datos de Sensores Remotos como Herramientas para la Evaluación de Impactos y la Conducción de Respuestas de Manejo Oportunas tras el Paso del Huracán Wilma, en Áreas Protegidas del Caribe Mexicano
Authors
Rios, G., Carranza, J., Reveles, B., Arellano, A. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2006
Pages: 690
Event: Proceedings of the Fifty Nine Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Belize City
Country: Belize
Abstract
On October 21th, Hurricane Wilma approached the Quintana Roo coast with winds of more than 200mph, for more than 60 hours. Several impacts such as forest affectations, coastal dune erosion and direct impact on the coral reefs were evaluated up to a 80%. Effects of this storm were estimated using remote sensing tools such as SPOT imagery analysis, and photogrametric pictures analysis, and GIS data overlaying. Among these impacts, the most impressive of them were the movement of marine sediment over the reef areas, affecting more than 130,000 has, the forest affectations in more than 2 million has, the rupture of many coastal branches along the shoreline of northern Quintana Roo, and the direct sedimentation on more than 50 ha of coral reefs in Punta Nizuc. After the evaluation, CONANP has conducted many responses to those impacts, including assignation of funds to clean the sea weed of the public use zone of Isla Contoy National Park, involving local community and diving staff of CONANP, the prevention of forest fires, and the coral reef restoration after the storm. In this matter, CONANP has invested more than 100,000 USD of government funds