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The Amazon Radiography Project aims at producing maps in the scale of 1:50,000, in a area of 1,8 million km 2 of the Brazilian Amazon using PolInSAR data. The purpose of this paper is to present the actual status of the Amazon Radiography Project and its perspectives. Together, some examples of technical and logistic overcoming will be highlighted. The products that will be made available throughout the project are orthoimages (X-HH and P-HH-HV-VH-VV bands), digital surface and terrain models (DSM / DTM), topographic maps, geospatial databases and vegetation stratification. From 2008 until now 72% of the project area has been imaged and 48% of the cartographic products been made. During the project, the adversities encountered generated the need for methodological development such as SAR data processing, new backup politics and polarimetric calibration. Also, the project allowed the technological development of the Brazilian SAR industry with the construction of new sensors.

International organizations are still in need for methodologies that accurately measures forests above ground biomass (AGB). Among the remote sensing technologies, those of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stands out in the modeling of forest biomass due to their ability to characterize the geometry of the imaged region. The semantic representation, through thematic maps, is one of the main means for the geospatial situational understanding. However, there is a gap of knowledge for models that are built by the analysis of quantitative and qualitative theme-feature in a complementary way. This article aims to develop and compare forest biomass estimation models, through an innovative methodology, over quantitative and qualitative theme-features. To this end, extracted SAR data and specific machine learning (ML) and feature selection techniques are applied for each case. The models developed are based into forest inventories with 128 plots located in two different Brazilian Amazon Forest areas and were built over 231 extracted independent variables. The methodology applied used techniques to categorize numeric data and, afterwards, comparatively evaluate numeric quantitative and categorized qualitative results. The constructions of the models were based on ML algorithms such as Multilayer Perceptron, Suport Vector Machine and Random Forest. The results showed that the different study areas had very different vegetation characteristics, significantly impacting the feature selection and ML algorithms. The different biomes of the Amazon Forest and their respective characteristics demanded specific models and techniques, not fitting into a single pattern. importance. I. INTRODUCTIONIn 2016 more than 190 countries participated in the 21 st United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP-21), held in Paris. This conference aimed to continue the Kyoto Protocol, expired in 2012, and, consequently, to define goals regarding the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere. Despite the intense work, a legally binding treaty, capable of compelling the international community to cut greenhouse gas emissions, has not been signed. Among the reasons for this failure, one of the highlights was the lack of methodologies that accurately measures these cuts and establishes mechanisms for this reduction [1,2]. Castro-Filho et al.

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