Border strip territorial management system for agricultural defense

Abstract

Sanitary problems ignore boundaries, especially when there is a territorial continuity as in the case of the border strip between Brazil and its neighboring countries Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring and the Agriculture and Livestock Defense Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Provision have developed a territorial management system of the frontier strip for agriculture and livestock defense with the main objective of contributing to the eradication of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The system gathers, organizes and offers detailed spatial information about the entire international border strip that lies between the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondonia, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul and Peru, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The system was developed using an iconographic base composed by images from the satellites Landsat, CBERS, Eros, and Spot. It is a fact that, in order to apply all the tools offered by the system, it is necessary that the agents involved understand its potential. The System by itself is not capable to offer solutions for the eradication of FMD or for the control of other zoonosis.