Brazil-Norway Workshop on Forest and Marine
Monitoring, March 2009
INPE´s vision for
monitoring and modelling
tropical deforestation
Gilberto Câmara
Director General
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Brazil
Brazilian National Plan for Climate Change
How can Brazil achieve its deforestation targets?
The basis for INPE´s work
0
10 Km
Constant improvement of monitoring techniques
The basis for INPE´s work
Imagem CBERS HRC (2.7m pan) + CCD (20m multi)
Constant improvement on sensors and data distribution
The basis for INPE´s work
TerraAmazon
Constant improvement on GIS techniques
Challenges in monitoring
Deforestation classes per area
2000
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
6%
8%
9%
9%
10%
10 a 25 ha
11%
6%
12%
14%
16%
20%
25%
25 a 50 ha
11%
5%
11%
11%
13%
16%
19%
50 a 100 ha
12%
6%
13%
12%
13%
14%
16%
100 a 150 ha
8%
3%
8%
7%
7%
7%
7%
150 a 300 ha
12%
6%
14%
12%
11%
11%
10%
More than 300 ha
38%
68%
31%
32%
27%
22%
13%
Tendência de Aumento
Aproxim. Estável
Tendência de Redução
Redução
4%
Estável
5%
Aumento
Less than 10 ha
2001
Challenges in monitoring
New deforestation shown by DETER
Landsat/TM 226/68
17/Ago/2007
DETER out-2007
Intensive timber extraction
Exploração – estágio inicial
INPE 2020 Plan: Imaging missions
2010
2012
2014
CBSAR
CBERS-3
Amazonia-1
2016
2018
CBERS-5
2020
CBERS-6
CBERS-4
Amazonia-2
Amazonia-3
CBERS 3 – 4 Sensors (under
construction)
Visible – Near IR
Medium wave IR
Short wave IR
Thermal IR
AWFI 60 m (720 km)
IRMSS 40 m (120 km)
CCD 20 m (120 km)
MUX 5/10 m(120 km)
0.4 0.5
0.7
0.9
1.5
Built by China
1.7
2.1
2.3
3.5
Built by Brazil
3.7
3.9
10
12
µm
CBERS 5 – 6 Sensors (under discussion)
Visible – Near IR
Medium wave IR
Short wave IR
Thermal IR
IRMSS 20 m (120 km)
AWFI-2 20 m (720 km)
MUX 5/10 m
(120 km)
0.4 0.5
0.7
0.9
1.5
Built by China
1.7
2.1
2.3
3.5
Built by Brazil
3.7
3.9
10
12
µm
Amazônia-1 (cooperation with UK)
AWFI
0,45-0,52 B
Spectral Bands(m)
0,52-0,59 G
0,63-0,69 R
0,77-0,89 NIR
Spatial resolution(m)
Ground swath(km)
40
780
5
Revisit (days)
Global land imaging every 3 days together with CBERS-3
(RAL-UK will alsoinclude a 10-meter camera)
MERIS (ENVISAT) in Amazon River
Mouth
source: ESA
RADARSAT-1: Baía de São Marcos
(09/nov/1998)
source: Tereza Prost
(MPEG)
PALSAR Application:
Detection of Deforestation and Degradation
Fire scar
Logged area
Deforestation
TM August 2007
PALSAR Application:
Detection of Deforestation and Degradation
Degradation undetected by optical data
PALSAR HH July 2007
PALSAR Application:
Detection of Deforestation and Degradation
Seasonal behavior of
Degraded areas
PALSAR HH November 2007
INPE Satellites for Tropical Forests
100
Technology 2000
MUX CBERS-3/4
50
Technology 2008
CCD CBERS-2/3/4
PRODES
Revisit (days)
MUX
CBERS-5/6
Technology 2015
10
DETER
CBERS-SAR
5
AWFI
CBERS-5/6
AWFI CBERS-3/4
AWFI
Amazonia-1
WFI CBERS-2
1
1
5
50
10
Resolution (metres)
100
500
1000
Challenges in public policy
How do the deforestation patterns react to public
policies and market forces ?
Challenges in public policy
Is it possible to associate the deforesation patterns to
its causes?
Challenges in public policy
Cenário para 2015?
What combination of public policies can support the
targets of deforestation for the Brazilian Amazonia?