Reducing Deforestation in Amazonia: The rôle of information and communication technologies
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Reducing Deforestation in Amazonia: The rôle of information and communication technologies
Gilberto CâmaraNational Institute for Space Research (INPE)Brazil
Nature, 29 July 2010
Até 10%
10 - 20%
20 – 30%
30 – 40%
40 – 50%
50 – 60%
60 – 70%
70 – 80%
80 – 90%
90 – 100%
Amazonia (4.000.000 km2 = size of Europe)
Deforestation in Amazonia (big problem)
Floresta
time
dialy deforestation alerts
Yearly rates of clear cuts
INPE’s Monitoring Systems
Daily warnings of newly deforested large areas
Real-time Deforestation Monitoring
“By 2020, Brazil will reduce deforestation by 80% relative to 2005.” (pres. Lula in Copenhagen COP-15)
Transparency builds governance
500.000 registrations46 million protests
Policing actions: illegal wood seizure
50% of operations in 2% of the area
Transparency builds governance!
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia (1988-2011)dropped from 27,000 km2 to 6,200 km2
166-112
116-113
116-112
30 Tb of data500.000 lines of code
150 man/years of software dev200 man/years of interpreters
How much it takes to survey Amazonia?
166-112
116-113
116-112
TerraAmazon – open source software for large-scale land change monitoring
Innovative software for environmental monitoring(technology transfer to developing nations)
“Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down by a whopping 78% from its recent high in 2004. If Brazil can maintain that progress, it would be the biggest environmental success story in decades, and would set an example to other countries that want to protect their tropical forests.” (Editorial, 7 June 2012)
CBERS: China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite
Open access data: 2 millions images distributed by INPE (2005-2011)
“A few satellites can cover the entire globe, but there needs to be a system in place to ensure their images are readily available to everyone who needs them. Brazil has set an important precedent by making its Earth-observation data available, and the rest of the world should follow suit.”
CBERS as a global satellite
CBERS ground stations will cover most of the Earth’s land mass between 300N and 300S
Cuiabá
Boa Vista
ChetumalMaspalomas Aswa
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Jo´burg
MalindiGabon
UrumchiMiyun
Ghuangzhou
Darwin
Alice Springs
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