Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MARIA ANGÉLICA DAMASCENO ROCHA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARIA ANGÉLICA DAMASCENO ROCHA
DATE: 23/02/2024
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Link da videochamada: https://meet.google.com/uuy-oubj-sup
TITLE:

USE OF REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT (DRONE) TO IDENTIFY, ANALYZE AND DESCRIBE BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS OF BUFFALO IN AN EXTENSIVE PRODUCTION AND CONFINEMENT SYSTEM IN AMAPÁ, AMAZON, BRAZIL

KEY WORDS:

Murrah; animal behavior; Swamp buffalo

PAGES: 50
BIG AREA: Ciências Agrárias
AREA: Medicina Veterinária
SUMMARY:

There is currently a worldwide demand for the use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (drones) in the most diverse scientific areas. The northern region, especially the Amazon, lacks research on the use of drones in studies that use animal behavior as a parameter. Buffaloes play a significant role in the Amazon region, contributing in different ways to the local ecology and economy. Understanding the behavior of these animals is essential to promote management practices that take their natural needs into account, ensuring animal welfare, production efficiency and minimizing negative impacts on the environment. This study aims to validate the drone as a methodological tool for studying buffalo behavior, through the identification, analysis and description of behavioral patterns that can be considered when evaluating the well-being of these animals in an extensive production and confinement system in the state. of Amapá, being able to provide data to build a livestock farm with greater precision, with new data processing analysis methodologies, bringing benefits such as saving time in animal monitoring as well as the property, in addition to encouraging the use of less expensive animal monitoring methods. invasive and that do not significantly alter the behavioral activity of the species. The ethological method will be exploratory as it will be carried out in situ, collecting information directly in the environments proposed in the construction of the work hypotheses, the practice used to observe behaviors will be focal sampling, and descriptive, hoping to describe patterns of behavior and interpret them. Also developing an adapted methodology, in order to define heights that do not disturb the animals during the use of the drone. The buffaloes will be monitored remotely, then the images will be transmitted, stored and processed using computer vision techniques. It is important to note that sustainable management is crucial to ensure that buffalo farming in the Amazon is beneficial to both the ecosystem and traditional communities and local farms. Inappropriate practices can result in negative impacts, highlighting the need for sustainable agricultural policies and practices.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1305300 - FREDERICO OZANAN BARROS MONTEIRO
Interno - 1487106 - CRISTIAN FATURI
Externa à Instituição - ANGÉLICA LUCIA FIGUEIREDO RODRIGUES - CEFET/PA
Externo à Instituição - DANILO LEAL ARCOVERDE
Externo à Instituição - GABRIEL MELO ALVES DOS SANTOS - UERJ