Monitoring forest cover in the Amazon · 1 – Belém Unit: •Acting in Brazilian Legal Amazon for...
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Monitoring forest cover
in the Amazon
REDD+ for the Guiana Shield Meeting
INPE
National Institute for
Space Research
Macapa, 10-11, December, 2013
Alessandra R. Gomes
Head of Amazon Regional Center INPE – CRA – Belém/PA
Facilities- INPE
AMAZON PROGRAM ACTION 4176 MCTI/INPE
AMAZON PROGRAM
4176 MCT/INPE • Objective:
Monitor Brazilian Amazon by satellite
• Projects:
PRODES
DETER
DETEX
DEGRAD
TERRACLASS
Projects – Programa Amazônia
Satellites and
Spatial
Resolutions
Frequency Minimum
area
Type of
deforestation
Objectives
PRODES LANDSAT TM/
CBERS CCD (30 m)
IRS-LISS (23m) e
DMC (32m)
Annual 6.25 ha Clear cut Annual rates
deforestation
(1988)
DETER MODIS - TERRA
(250 m) monthly 25.00 ha Clear cut
Degradation
Warming
Surveillance
(since 2004)
DEGRAD Same images used by
PRODES Annual 6.25 ha Degradation Quantify
degradation
(since 2008)
DETEX Same images
used by
PRODES
On demand 6.25 ha Selective
logging
Selective
logging
(2007)
TERRA
CLASS
Same images
used by
PRODES
Bi-Annual 6.25 ha Clear cut Land use
and land
cover
AMAZON
REGIONAL CENTER
- CRA -
1 – Belém Unit:
• Acting in Brazilian Legal Amazon for satellite monitoring
• Became as a capacity building center of tropical forest difusion, with courses for national and international groups
2 – Boa Vista Unit:
• Receive, process and disseminate satellite images in cover area (North of South America, Caribe and Central America)
3 – Manaus Unit:
• Support studies of modelling Amazon global changes
INPE AMAZON is formed by 3 units
Facilities – Belém Unit
Facilities – Belém Unit
Facilities – Belém Unit
Facilities – Belém Unit
Where are Belém Unit?
Rapideye®, 2011
UFPA
• 2 laboratories (with computers)
• 2 classes rooms
• 2 meeting rooms
• 21 researches rooms
• 1 auditorium
INFRA STRUCTURE
TEAM
• 7 employees MCTI/INPE
• 10 FUNCATE collaborators
• 2 consultants – spanish and english
• 4 fellowships CNPq/INPE
• 20 trainees
MAIN PROJECTS
• Capacity Building – TCTP – JICA/ABC/INPE/IBAMA (2010-2013)
– ACTO – 3 years/project approved
– FAO – developing documents
• DETEX (with Forest Brazilian Service)
• RADAR images (tests with COSMO SkyMed)
• TerraClass (INPE/CRA – Embrapa CPATU –
CNPTIA)
• OSE Guyana – France and Brazil
• CAF – Latin American Development Bank
• Field works and researches support
CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT
Capacity building projects
TerraAmazon System
Basic concepts on remote sensing, digital image procesing and geoprocesing
Objective: allow technicians to be able to come back to their countries and start the tropical forest monitoring with TerraAmazon System
Training room
FAO – 04-15/October/2010
Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador y México
TCTP – 28 May to 18 June 2011
Angola, Mozambique, Paraguay
TCTP – 17th, October to 4th, November 2011
El Salvador y Panamá
R.D. Congo,
Papua Nueva Guinea y Vietnam
FAO – 19th to 30th, September 2011
Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela y Perú
OTCA – 5th to 16th, March 2012
Skilled Countries – From 2010 to 2013
South America: Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Perú, Ecuador and Paraguay
Central America : Belice, Guatemala, Jamaica, El Salvador, Panamá, México e Barbados
Africa: Angola, Mozambique, República Democrática do Congo, República Popular do Congo, Zambia, Camerún, Senegal, Burkina Faso
Asia: Malasia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Tailandia, Camboya, Vietnam, Papua Nueva Guinea, Filipinas
Number of participants per year
Next Internacional Course: 27/01/14 a 07/02/14
Countries: Bolívia, Colômbia, Equador, Peru, Venezuela
Site http://www.inpe.br/cra/projetos_pesquisas/capacitacao_internacional.php
Projects and countries
TERRACLASS Project
Mapping land use and land
cover of Brazilian Legal Amazon
Deforestation Map from PRODES
Annual Agriculture Embrapa Informática Agropecuária
Secondary Vegetation INPE-Centro Regional da Amazônia
Pastures Embrapa Amazônia Oriental
2008 2010 2008 2010
Classes Total (km2) Total (km2) (%) (%) (%)
Second vegetation 150.815,31 165.229,31 21,26 22,27 9,56
Regeneration with pasture 48.027,37 63.165,46 6,77 8,52 31,52
Pasture with exposed soil 594,19 373,16 0,08 0,05 -37,20
Clean pasture 335.714,95 339.851,87 47,32 45,82 1,23
Dirty pasture 62.823,76 56.076,64 8,85 7,56 -10,74
Forestry 0 3.014,79 0,00 0,41
Mosaic of land uses 24.416,57 17.962,95 3,44 2,42 -26,43
Annual Agriculture 34.927,24 39.977,85 4,92 5,39 14,46
Urban Area 3.818,14 4.473,56 0,54 0,60 17,17
Mining 730,68 966,82 0,10 0,13 32,32
Others 477,88 2.730,64 0,07 0,37 471,41
Non-observed area 45.406,27 45.849,48 6,40 6,18 0,98
Total 707.752,36 739.672,54 100 100 4,51
Pasture Annual
Agriculture
Mosaic of
land uses Other classes
Secondary
Vegetation
7.9
91
km2
(2%
)
Pasture
459.467km2
(2010)
Secondary Vegetation
165.229km2
(2010)
Pasture Annual
Agriculture
Mosaic of
land uses Other
Classes
Secondary
Vegetation
13
5.9
23
km
2
(82
%)
All data are available in:
http://www.inpe.br/cra/projetos_pesquisas/terraclass2010.php
Thank you very much!
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