CV Lattes
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovações (Brasil). Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Prof. Dr. Gilberto Câmara is a Brazilian researcher in Geoinformatics, GIScience, Spatial Analysis, and Land Use Modelling, who is a Senior Research Fellow at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He is internationally recognized for promoting free access for geospatial data and for setting up an efficient satellite monitoring of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. After retiring from INPE in June 2016 after 35 years of work, he continues to conduct R&D activities at INPE as a Senior Research Fellow. Gilberto was INPE?s assistant director for Earth Observation from October 2001 to December 2005, and INPE?s director general from December 2005 to May 2012. During his term in as INPE?s director general, the institute?s budget grew from US$ 90 million in 2004 to US$ 250 million in 2010. Under his guidance, INPE?s team achieved big advances in land change monitoring using remote sensing, leading to a major decrease in the deforestation in Amazonia. The leading scientific journal Nature called this reduction in deforestation to be "the biggest environmental success story in decades". Gilberto led the Brazilian team which, working together with researchers from IIASA (International Institute for Applied System Analysis), developed the technical studies that supported the land use component of Brazil?s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreeement on Climate Change. Gilberto has advised 29 PhD dissertations and 28 Master thesis and published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers that have been cited more than 14,000 times (Google Scholar, April 2021). He was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of Global Land Project from 2006 to 2011. From June 2013 to May 2015, he was the Brazil Chair at the University of Münster (Germany), with support from the Brazilian agency CAPES. From 2015 to 2018, he represented the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in the Belmont Forum of funding agencies for global change research, and was one of a co-chairs of the Belmont Forum (2016-2017). He was Director of the Secretariat of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), for the period July 2018 to June 2021. In this function, he applied his vision on open knowledge to help developing nations to best use Earth observation data for improving societal well-being and sustainable development practices. As recognition for his work, he was inducted as a Doctor honoris causa from the University of Münster (Germany) and as a Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre National du Mérite of France. He received the Global Citizen Award of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association. He is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente (Netherlands) and a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the William T. Pecora award from NASA and USGS for "leadership to the broad and open access to remote sensing data". (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The goal of this research is to use land use models to capture the effects of expansion of bioenergy production in Brazil. We will address two main scientific questions: (a) What could be the land use effects of increased bioethanol production from sugarcane in Brazil? (b) What could be the land use effects of increased biodiesel production from soy in Brazil? Policy-makers in Brazil have…
The project addresses a key scientific problem: How can we use e-science methods and techniques to substantially improve the extraction of land use and land cover change information from big Earth Observation data sets in an open and reproducible way? In response to this challenge, our project will conceive, build and deploy a completely new type of knowledge platform for organization, ac…
This project aims to carry out the econometric modeling of the geoinformation sector in Brazil and develop a sectoral index to assist in the tracking of dynamics in this market. To support the creation of this growth indicator, it is intended to implement an application for the exchange of metadata on geographical information. Based on open source software, the application will permit the…
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Brazil is one of the largest agricultural producers in the world and a leading producer of biofuels. However, the use of remote sensing images to provide estimates of crop yield is still limited. This is due to the limitations of current data analysis methods, which focuses on processing a single image. The expectation of this project is that methods of "big analytics data" can significan…
Time series analysis are a good proxy to study the temporal trajectories of land cover change. Thus, the main goal of this project is testing the accuracy of new analysis techniques and data mining protocols developed by E-Science project for the Amazon deforestation monitoring. After the integration of analytic methods and validation in the field, is expected the developing of semi-autho…
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The agricultural expansion in Brazil has been the environmental impacts of the expansion of crop production and cattle-raising in its Amazonia and Cerrado biomes. The Soy Moratorium was created to stop the purchase soybean planted on cleared forestland after July 2008 in the Brazilian Amazon, and has been renewed every year since this data. Nevertheless, the expansion of crop production m…
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