Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies (CPTEC)
DevCoCast “Capacity Building”
WORKSHOP
Training Report
Eng. Sérgio Pereira - CPTEC/INPE
[email protected]
June 2011
1. Introduction
GEONETCast is a low cost, global environmental information delivery system
that transmits satellite and in situ data, products and services from the Global
Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to users through communication
satellites. The satellite broadcast uses standard digital video broadcasting
protocols and technology to provide a multi-cast, access-controlled broadband
capability. No internet connection is required and the receiving station is simply a
standard personal computer, an off-the-shelf satellite television dish and a couple
of computer cards. Accordingly, GEONETCast will be able to reach users in
developing country, even in areas with limited or no access to high speed
internet. The result is worldwide dissemination of urgently needed environmental
data to users located anywhere on the planet, in a reliable manner, 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year.
As many developing countries are in particular exposed to serious environmental
risks and often have a high need for, but no reliable access to real time
environmental information, a 3-year project called GEONETCast for and by
Developing Countries (DevCoCast) was established in order to involve
Developing Countries in the GEONETCast initiative and sets up a strong user
and provider base. DevCoCast is a project funded largely by the European
Community’s 7th Framework Programme and coordinated by VITO, leading a
consortium of 15 full partners (4 from Africa, 4 from South America, 7 from
Europe) and 10 associated organizations. The DevCoCast project disseminates
existing environmental added-value data (both in-situ as well as satellite based)
from various sources in Africa, South-America and Europe via GEONETCast to a
broad range of end-users in developing countries. Making this relevant
environmental information available on a wide scale is only a first technical step;
even more important is the support of the actual use of this data. Therefore, a
major focus lies on capacity building, including training, user support,
networking, and outreach.
Aiming for a better usage of GEONETCast system and an optimal application of
the available data by the different users, the Center for Weather Forecast and
Climatic Studies (CPTEC) of the Brazilian National Institute for Space
Research (INPE), through its Satellite and Environmental Systems Division
(DSA) organized the course “DevCoCast – Capacity Building” in the period 13 to
17 June 2011.
The overall objective of this training was not only to demonstrate the advantage
of using freely available data disseminated via the low cost and highly reliable
GEONETCast system, but also to make available a set of exercises that can be
used for training (“training of trainers”) or end-users applications.
The classes were prepared to describe the various (pre-)processing and analysis
steps in a structured manner following a clearly described methodology for
different application domains.
2. Training Description and Materials
Nine modules covering different aspects related with GEONETCast system were
programmed in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.
Five Application themes were selected, plus a CBERS module:
André Souza (Crop Monitoring)
Eliana Fonseca (Biomass Monitoring)
Elizabeth Ferreira (Estimation of Evapotranspiration)
Daniel Vila (Methodology for Estimation of Precipitation on a river basin)
Fabio Torrezan (Assessing Vegetation Coverage)
The modules were expository, aiming to give to the participants, within sufficient
detail, the complete processing flow from source data and products, through
algorithms, to the final application, as developed in the ITC DevCoCast
Advanced Training which occurred in Feb-2011.
The teachers in some cases have also provided hints or recommendations to
help the participants to be able to adapt the methodology to their areas/targets of
interest. Cesar de Mello has presented details of a GEONETCast Antenna
Receiving System, and the main resources of ILWIS that the Applications would
be using. Daniel Vila also presented some basic principles of Remote Sensing
and Image Processing.
The language used in this training was Portuguese and the course calendar is
shown in Figure 1. The participants list is included at the end of this report.
Segunda-feira
Terça-feira
Quarta-feira
Quinta-feira
13/junho
14/junho
15/junho
16/junho
Sexta-feira
17/junho
8:30 às 11:30h
8:30 às 11:30h
8:30 às 11:30h
8:30 às 11:30h
8:30 às 11:30h
Introdução ao Sistema
GeonetCast/DevCoCast
Configuração da Estação
de Recepção e Visita à
estação da EUMETCast na
DAS
Visualização e manuseio
de produtos GeonetCast
através do Software ILWIS
Uso dos índices de
vegetação derivados do
satélite SPOT para
identificação e
monitoramento de áreas
agrícolas.
Monitoramento da
biomassa da vegetação
nativa do Pampa a partir
de produtos NDVI-SPOT
Estimativa da
Evapotranspiração, no
estado de Minas Gerais,
utilizando o modelo SEBS
através do software ILWIS
Cesar de Mello
Cesar de Mello
André Souza
Eliana Fonseca
Elizabeth Ferreira
14:00 às 16:30
14:00 às 16:30
14:00 às 16:30
14:00 às 16:30
14:00 às 16:30
Princípios Básicos de
Sensoriamento Remoto
por Satélite e
processamento de
imagens
Aplicação de metodologia
de estimação de
precipitação por satélite
para monitoramento de
bacias hidrológicas
Identificação e
monitoramento de
pastagens degradadas
através dos produtos
Geonetcast/DevCoCast
Imagens CBERS
Daniel Vila
Daniel Vila
Fábio Torresan
Eliana Kalil
Figure 1: Workshop DevCoCast – “Capacity Building” calendar
A total of 129 registrations for attendance were received and 30 participants were
selected from different countries: 9 (30%) students from outside Brazil (Peru,
Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, South Africa and Mozambique)
and 21 (70%) from Brazil, from universities, weather services, and private and
public companies (Figure 2). We have "almost" got two additional candidates
from Angola, but unfortunately they were not able to attend.
Participant's geografical distribution
25
20
15
10
5
0
Latin America
Africa
Brazil
Figure 2: Workshop DevCoCast – “Capacity Building” participant’s geographical distribution
The complete lectures material was placed available to each participant, initially
in a server to be accessed by ftp:
ftp://morasseia.cptec.inpe.br/GEONETCast/Treinamento_DevCoCast/Workshop
_DevCoCast_Capacity_Building/
A complete DVD is being compiled and will be mailed to all participants, together
with the proper certificate document.
3. Results
Participants completed and returned an evaluation questionnaire in order to
assist the organizers in evaluating the course and to improve the planning and
preparation, publicity, content and delivery of any similar future training event.
The results from the collected evaluation questionnaires for the course
“DevCoCast – Capacity Building” are shown in this section.
The evaluation questionnaire was composed of 10 multiple choice questions,
where each question has 3 alternatives: (a) Excellent; (b) Good and (c)
Acceptable. In Figure 3, the questions and the relative percentages were
presented. In general terms, the results were very satisfactory with the exception
of depth and course length (25% and 30% “Acceptable”, respectively) due to the
fact that only one week (with only one session for each application theme) wasn’t
enough for a comprehensive development of all topics exposed.
1. Overall, how do you rate the course?
0%
15%
2. Course organization?
0%
20%
80%
85%
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
3. How do you rate the resource material
available?
5%
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
4. Overall, did the course meet your
expectations?
0%
40%
45%
50%
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
60%
Acceptable
50%
50%
50%
Acceptable
Acceptable
Good
Good
Excellent
Excellent
8. Know ledge gained?
5%
7. Depth?
25%
Excellent
6. Content?
0%
5. Scope?
0%
50%
Good
25%
20%
75%
Acceptable
50%
Good
Excellent
9. Course Length?
25%
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
10. Impact of the course on your w ork abilities?
5%
30%
25%
70%
45%
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
Figure 3: Graphs for evaluation questionnaire
Acceptable
Good
Excellent
We have received from the participants a "general" request that we should
carefully study the possibility to provide a dedicated and a more extensive
training in the full ILWIS package ("at distance course"), in order to facilitate to all
the efficient experimentation of the given methodologies. (This kind of course
certainly could not be fit in our "one week" Workshop).
Some of the participant’s comments are attached in the paragraphs below:
“Mi sugerencia sería, realizar más horas en la manipulación del software ILWIS o
un curso separado para su uso, ya que es la base para poder generar productos de los
datos del GEONETCast.”
“Este Workshop foi muito bom, porém sugiro que seja realizado uma
capacitação complementar (de preferência presencial) sobre as ferramentas ILWIS e
GEONETCast Toolbox, para que possamos realmente nos “apropriar” desta tecnologia.
Sugiro também que seja criado um sistema de Tutoria para cada participante que
desejar propor/realizar uma nova aplicação ambiental.”
4. Conclusions
As a preliminary result, we are observing the clear interest of the participants of
Minas Gerais - EMATER (crop and biomass monitoring), EPAMIG (crop and
biomass monitoring) and IGAM (hidrology and evapotranspiration) - in installing
their GEONETCast Receiving Systems to start adapting the methodology to their
areas of interest. In the coming days we shall be discussing a draft for a joint
project with INPE with large probability to get State funding. Funding for the
receiving system is already in progress to be granted.
A participant from Federal University of State of PARA, is also already taking
steps to get a Receiving station to initiate a work based on Daniel Vila’s
methodology, and is also interested in becoming deeply familiar with ILWIS
package. Civil Defense Coordination (State of ACRE) has also shown great
interest in having their GEONETCast System in place.
A participant from Dept of Meteorology (Lab. of Applied Meteorology), Federal
University of State of Rio de Janeiro has already taken almost all the steps to
implement their GEONETCast-DevCoCast Receiving System (only pendency at
this time is to get the DVB card).
The participant from EMPBRAPA (State of Santa Catarina) has already
signalized that is in progress the acquisition of 2 (two) receiving systems, at
institutions joined to EMBRAPA.
A participant from Civil Defense (of State of ACRE) is starting a project aiming
the installation of a DevCoCast Receiving System.
The participant from Mozambique has asked for a version of the
“Hydroestimador” for Africa. Our feeling here is that we shall be capable to
support the implementation of this product, using MSG imagery, Global Model
output, the topographic base for Africa, and the software code.
In general, we think we have achieved what we aimed for: showing to each
institution that we are counting on real and valid methodologies that allow
satellite data and products to become usable for some particular applications that
can support decision makers.
Since this subject is very important nowadays, and with the knowledge gained in
the course the trainees are now more familiar with the satellite products that are
currently produced and delivered by the different remote sensing centers.
DevCoCast Workshop “Capacity
Building” -
DevCoCast Workshop “Capacity
Building”
Lecturer Eliana da Fonseca’s class
June 2011
Participant List
Participant
Institutions
Country
Berino Francisco Silinto
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGIA (INAM)
MOZAMBIQUE
Hugo Jose De Lemos
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY (SANSA)
SOUTH ÁFRICA
Carlos Gastón Catalini
UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CÓRDOBA
ARGENTINA
Marco Lucio Hernández
DIRECCIÓN DE AGRICULTURA Y CONTINGENCIAS CLIMÁTICAS
(DACC)
ARGENTINA
Jose Luis Ticona Jara
SERVICIO NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGÍA E HIDROLOGÍA DEL
PERÚ
PERU
Jeannette Isaura Lopez Barceló
DIRECCIÓN NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGÍA
URUGUAI
Mayri Concepción Chourio Alvarez
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGÍA E HIDROLOGÍA
(INAMEH)
VENEZUELA
Luis Rogelio Poveda Zaruma
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGÍA E HIDROLOGÍA
(INAMHI)
ECUADOR
Cristobal Torres Ravelo
DIRECCIÓN METEOROLÓGICA DE CHILE
CHILE
Cristian Melo De Souza
COORDENADORIA ESTADUAL DE DEFESA CIVIL
BRASIL (ACRE )
José Carvalho De Moraes
SISTEMA DE PROTEÇÃO DA AMAZÔNIA (SIPAM)
BRASIL (Porto Velho, RO)
Janice Freitas Leivas
EMBRAPA MONITORAMENTO POR SATÉLITE (CNPM)
BRASIL (Campinas, SP)
Wagner Luiz Barbosa Melciades
FUNDAÇÃO CEARENSE DE METEOROLOGIA E RECURSOS
HÍDRICOS (FUNCEME)
BRASIL (Fortaleza)
Ana Cláudia M P Albanez
EMPRESA DE ASSISTÊNCIA TÉCNICA E EXTENSÃO RURAL DO
ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS (EMATER - MG)
BRASIL (Belo Horizonte)
Maria Lélia Rodriguez Simão
EMPRESA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA DE MINAS GERAIS
(EPAMIG)
BRASIL (Belo Horizonte)
Antonio Marcos Vianna Campos
MARINHA DO BRASIL, CENTRO DE HIDROGRAFIA DA MARINHA
BRASIL ( Niteroi, RJ)
Julio Cesar Marchiori De Paula
SECRETARIA DE MEIO AMBIENTE E DESENVOLVIMENTO
SUSTENTÁVEL DE PETRÓPOLIS
BRASIL (Petrópolis, RJ)
Antônio Do Nascimento Oliveira
LABORATÓRIO DE METEOROLOGIA APLICADA /UNIVERSIDADE
FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO (UFRJ)
BRASIL (Jacarepaguá, RJ)
Frederico De Moraes Rudorff
EMPRESA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA E EXTENSÃO RURAL DE
BRASIL (Florianópolis, SC)
SANTA CATARINA
Paulo Afonso Fischer Kuhn
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ
BRASIL (Belem, PA)
Gláucia De Fátima Gomes Da Silva
UNITINS - NÚCLEO ESTADUAL DE METEOROLOGIA E RECURSOS
HÍDRICOS (NEMET/RH)
BRASIL (Palmas, TO)
Elio Andrei Pissaia Maciel
GLOBALSAT SENSORIAMENTO REMOTO/ FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO A
PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA (MT)
BRASIL
Gerson Pagano Galli
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL (UFRGS)
BRASIL (Porto Alegre -RS)
Carlos Alberto Prata De Almeida
INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DO MEIO AMBIENTE E DOS RECURSOS
NATURAIS RENOVÁVEIS (IBAMA)
BRASIL
Sandra Maria Oliveira Sá
UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO MARANHÃO (UEMA)
BRASIL
Almir Venancio Ferreira
CENTRO FEDERAL DE EDUCAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA (CEFET-RJ)
BRASIL
Paula Pereira De Souza
INSTITUTO MINEIRO DE GESTÃO DAS ÁGUAS (IGAM)
BRASIL
Gilmar Aparecido Gallo
TOTAL QUALITY ENGENHARIA E SERVIÇOS LTDA.
BRASIL
Hugo Do Nascimento Bendini
EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA (EMBRAPA)
BRASIL
INSTRUMENTAÇÃO / UFSCar.
Helcio Marcelo De Russi
TERRASATII
BRASIL