The challenge of global environmental monitoring
Gilberto Câmara, Director General National Institute for Space Research (INPE)Brazil
China Brasil High Level Dialogue ST, 2011
We need cooperation at a global level…
By the year 2050...9 billion people: 6 billion tons
of GHG and 60 million tons of urban pollutants.
Resource-hungry: We will withdraw 30% of available fresh water.
Risky living: 80% urban areas, 25% near earthquake faults, 2% in coast lines less than 1 m above sea level.
source: Guy Brasseur
The food challenge
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Changes in dietary patterns: Meat consumption
FAOSTAT 2007
The food challenge: technology gaps
Productivity and prices: the challenge
source: The Economist
Forests and food production: potential conflicts
Best environmental monitoring
46% of energy is renewable
Brazil: a natural knowledge economyBest technology in biofuels
World leader in tropical agriculture
Nature, 29 July 2010
Agriculture
Energy
Ecosystems
Climate change
Weather and natural disasters
Space technology adds value to Brazil´s natural knowledge economy
Megacities
Monitoring Deforestation in Amazonia CBERS image
Science (27 April 2007): “Brazil´s monitoring system is the envy of the world”.
DeforestationDegradation
Governance + markets + technology >> REDD+
Reducing deforestation in Amazonia
Sugarcane crop mapping
Detailed estimates of sugarcane crop areas
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Are biofuels replacing food production in Brazil?
source: INPE
Sugarcane expansion
24% 26%30%
37% 41% 38%
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Área Agrícola Cana-de-açúcar Citrus Pastagem Vegetação Arbórea
Data is coming... are we ready?
Sentinel-2A
2012
Amazônia-1
2013
2014
2015
2011
Landsat-8
CBERS-3
ResourceSat-2 ResourceSat-3
Sentinel-2B
CBERS-4
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
Bangcoc
The future of CBERS
CBERS satellites will provide information about global land change on the tropics
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