Transparency builds governance

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Transparency builds governance
GEO Data Sharing WG, Iguaçu, 2012

• Gilberto Câmara
• National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
• Brazil
• http//www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto

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Land change is crucial for the world
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The food challenge
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The food challenge technology gaps
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Forests and food production potential conflicts
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Earth observation satellites are essential for
measuring land change
Medium-resolution (5-50 m) earth observation
satellites data are global public goods
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Full and open access to space-based information
is indispensable for global sustainable
development
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Nature, 29 July 2010
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Nature, 29 July 2010
Brazil is the worlds current largest experiment
on land change and its effects will it also
happen elsewhere? Todays questions about Brazil
could be tomorrows questions for other countries
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Deforestation in Amazonia (big problem)
Amazonia (4.000.000 km2 size of Europe)
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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.
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Open access data policy a qualified success
CBERS_at_INPE 2 million images (2004-2009)
LANDSAT _at_USGS 9 million images since 2009
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How does deforestation happen?
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INPEs Monitoring Systems
dialy deforestation alerts
time
Yearly rates of clear cuts
Floresta
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Real-time Deforestation Monitoring
Daily warnings of newly deforested large areas
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Policing actions illegal wood seizure
50 of operations in 2 of the area
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By 2020, Brazil will reduce deforestation by 80
relative to 2005. (pres. Lula in Copenhagen
COP-15)
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Keep watching!
Jan-April/2011 126 increase
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Deforestation hotspots March-May 2011
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Deforestation hotspots June-August 2011
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How much it takes to survey Amazonia?
116-112
30 Tb of data 500.000 lines of code 150 man/years
of software dev 200 man/years of interpreters
116-113
166-112
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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia is down by a
whopping 78 from its recent high in 2004. If
Brazil can maintain that progress and Norway
has put a US1-billion reward on the table as
encouragement it would be the biggest
environmental success in decades (Nature, Rio
20 editorial)
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Transparency builds governance!
CBERS image
Deforestation
Degradation
Science (27 April 2007) Brazils monitoring
system is the envy of the world.