The Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – Inpe) will update Deter’s data on the internet every 15 days from now. The Institute sends spots of deforestation and degradation every day to Ibama, which uses this information to guide supervision and to ensure effective actions of forest clearing control.
There will be no change in this daily operation between Inpe and Ibama, only in the frequency of data releasing on the internet. Previously, this information used to be available to the public every month, or trimester, usually after its submission by the federal government in Brasília.
This new way of disseminating Deter’s data was agreed between the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), to which Inpe is attached, and the Ministry of Environment (MMA), responsible for Ibama. Thus, the people can find new outcomes on the Amazon monitoring more often because the data will be presented twice a month, always at: www.obt.inpe.br/deter.
On Monday (20/8), it was published data concerning the monitoring from August 1 to 15.
