An event promoted by the Committee of Earth Observation Satellite, during the 15th Conference of the United Nations about Climate Change, in Copenhagen, will discuss about the satellite data global dissemination for the monitoring effect of environmental change. At 5:00 pm on December, 11th, the event will be chaired by Gilberto Câmara, director of National Institute for Space Research.
INPE takes over the CEOS presidency in 2010, which gathers 28 space agencies and 20 national and international organizations, with the purpose of coordinating the Earth observation satellite data global interchange. Gilberto Câmara will present the CEOS perspective on climate monitoring from the launching of new remote sensing satellite. He will speech about greenhouse gas emission effect aggravated by deforestation.
As a main speaker the event will count on Paul J. Crutzen PHd, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his researchers about ozone layer destruction. Takashi Moriyama from the Japanese Space Agency and Jose Achache from Group Earth Observation – GEO.
In 2004 INPE adopted as its policy the free distribution of satellite data through internet. CEOS and GEO international organizations have as their main purpose the data availability that contributes to a better understanding of the global environmental changes so that they can share information to monitor carbon levels, climate changes, lack of biodiversity, deforestation, hydric resources, ocean temperature and other hazzard indicators for the planet health and the human well being.
Global Monitoring
On Thursday December 12th, INPE and the United Nations of Food and Agriculture Organization executed in Copenhagen a memorandum of agreement that will allow the capacity building and transference of technology to countries interested in monitoring the forests by satellite.
Through PRODES Brazil monitors 4 million km2 of Amazon forest every ear. The biggest world programme of forest surveillance that allows Brazil to measure deforestation and to publish in a clear way all information obtained from the satellite.
According to FAO, Brazil opens the way to control deforestation and forestall degradation in all over the world while by means of INPE; it offers support to other countries in order to improve the surveillance of their own forests.
The memorandum of agreement will provide necessary technical building capacity to REDD monitoring – Reduction Emission by Deforestation and Degradation in Developing Countries. One of the main FAO purpose, REDD is also one of the most important issue to be discussed in COP-15.
The building capacity courses will be held in “Centro Regional da Amazonia, which has just been established in Belém (PA) with a special mission to become a center of international technology monitoring diffusion for tropical forest satellite. The foreign technicians will learn how to operate "TerraAmazon" a system developed by INPE for their monitoring programme and will be available to everyone with no cost as well.
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Source: INPE