How light can the Digital Earth be? Gilberto Cmara National
Institute for Space Research (INPE) Brazil
http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto Eye on Earth Summit, Abu Dhabi,
2011 Slide 2 We need a lot of data for decision making!
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia (1988-2011) dropped from 27,000
km 2 to 6,200 km 2 Slide 3 166-112 116-113 116-112 30 Tb of data
500.000 lines of code 150 man/years of software dev 200 man/years
of interpreters How much it takes to survey Amazonia? Slide 4 Daily
warnings of newly deforested large areas Real-time Deforestation
Monitoring Slide 5 Policing actions: illegal wood seizure 50% of
operations in 2% of the area Slide 6 Transparency builds governance
500.000 registrations 46 million protests Slide 7 Hobbes Rosseau
Slide 8 23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 8
Capacity building source: gapminder.org Slide 9 23rd CEOS Plenary I
Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 9 Empowering source:
gapminder.org Slide 10 Virtual Globes Digital Earth OpenStreetMap
Wikimapia Slide 11 Virtual Globes Digital Earth Data + services
(can only be provided reliably by organizations that are trusted)
Scientists as policy-makers (peer-reviewed results) Citizens as
sensors (perception, individual actions) visibility, communication,
acessibility ? Slide 12 Data democracy needs to reach the masses!
photo: Yann Arthus Bertrand Slide 13 Environmental issues are best
handled with participation of all citizens. Each individual shall
have appropriate access to information concerning the environment.
RIO-92 Declaration principle #10 Slide 14 RIO + 20: bulding on
principles from RIO-92 We need a new convention on the public
availability of environmental information
