Transcript Perspectivas INPE: 2005-2009

China Brasil High Level Dialogue ST, 2011
The challenge of global
environmental monitoring
Gilberto Câmara, Director General
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Brazil
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
Changes in dietary patterns: Meat consumption
60
Developing countries
China
Meat consumption [kg/cap/yr]
World
40
20
FAOSTAT 2007
2000
1997
1994
1991
1988
1985
1982
1979
1976
1973
1970
1967
1964
1961
-
The food challenge: technology gaps
Productivity and prices: the challenge
source: The Economist
Forests and food production: potential conflicts
Brazil: a natural knowledge economy
Best environmental monitoring
World leader in tropical agriculture
Best technology in biofuels
46% of energy is renewable
Nature, 29 July 2010
Energy
Agriculture
Ecosystems
Space technology adds value to Brazil´s natural
knowledge economy
Megacities
Climate change
Weather and natural
disasters
Monitoring Deforestation in Amazonia
CBERS image
Degradation
Deforestation
Science (27 April 2007): “Brazil´s monitoring system is the envy of
the world”.
Reducing deforestation in Amazonia
Governance + markets + technology >> REDD+
Sugarcane crop mapping
Detailed estimates of sugarcane crop areas
Are biofuels replacing food production in Brazil?
14
source: INPE
Sugarcane expansion
100%
3%
1%
90%
26%
80%
44%
51%
70%
71%
70%
65%
59%
60%
1%
85%
1%
50%
40%
30%
1%
3%
1%
3%
1%
3%
20%
10%
1%
3%
37%
24%
26%
7%
41%
17%
48%
98%
98%
1%
1%
2008
2009
38%
30%
26%
12%
0%
2000
2001
Área Agrícola
2002
2003
Cana-de-açúcar
2004
Citrus
2005
2006
Pastagem
2007
Vegetação Arbórea
ResourceSat-2
2013
2014
CBERS-3
Amazônia-1
CBERS-4
Landsat-8
Sentinel-2A
2015
2012
2011
Data is coming... are we ready?
Sentinel-2B
ResourceSat-3
CBERS as a global satellite
Urumchi
Aswa
n
Maspalomas
Chetumal
Miyun
Ghuangzhou
Bangcoc
Boa
Vista
Gabon
Malindi
Darwin
Cuiabá
Jo´burg
Alice Springs
CBERS ground stations will cover most of the Earth’s land
mass between 300N and 300S
The future of CBERS
CBERS satellites will provide information about
global land change on the tropics