Reducing Deforestation in Amazonia: The rôle of information and communication technologies

Gilberto CâmaraNational Institute for Space Research (INPE)Brazil

Nature, 29 July 2010

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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

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Boa Vista

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Jo´burg

MalindiGabon

UrumchiMiyun

Ghuangzhou

Darwin

Alice Springs

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