<b>The technology of space information as support to the forestry in the rural property</b>

Abstract

This work presents some economical, technical and socio-environmental bases on the rural property that justifies their use also for forestry purposes, and discusses the importance of the geoprocessing as a technology tool of information that subsidizes this planning and the sustainability of this activity. The valorization of the forestry in the society should extol the expansion of the planted area and consequently increase the offer of products, the popularization of the advantages of the certified products also for the consumer in the internal market, and the recovery of the native remainders in the sense of promoting their productive use and with sustainability criteria. For that, it necessarily needs a valorization of the geotechnologies, as base for the socket of decision in the rural property.