Monitoring forest cover

in the Amazon

REDD+ for the Guiana Shield Meeting

INPE

National Institute for

Space Research

Macapa, 10-11, December, 2013

Alessandra R. Gomes

Head of Amazon Regional Center INPE – CRA – Belém/PA

Facilities- INPE

AMAZON PROGRAM ACTION 4176 MCTI/INPE

AMAZON PROGRAM

4176 MCT/INPE • Objective:

Monitor Brazilian Amazon by satellite

• Projects:

PRODES

DETER

DETEX

DEGRAD

TERRACLASS

Projects – Programa Amazônia

Satellites and

Spatial

Resolutions

Frequency Minimum

area

Type of

deforestation

Objectives

PRODES LANDSAT TM/

CBERS CCD (30 m)

IRS-LISS (23m) e

DMC (32m)

Annual 6.25 ha Clear cut Annual rates

deforestation

(1988)

DETER MODIS - TERRA

(250 m) monthly 25.00 ha Clear cut

Degradation

Warming

Surveillance

(since 2004)

DEGRAD Same images used by

PRODES Annual 6.25 ha Degradation Quantify

degradation

(since 2008)

DETEX Same images

used by

PRODES

On demand 6.25 ha Selective

logging

Selective

logging

(2007)

TERRA

CLASS

Same images

used by

PRODES

Bi-Annual 6.25 ha Clear cut Land use

and land

cover

AMAZON

REGIONAL CENTER

- CRA -

1 – Belém Unit:

• Acting in Brazilian Legal Amazon for satellite monitoring

• Became as a capacity building center of tropical forest difusion, with courses for national and international groups

2 – Boa Vista Unit:

• Receive, process and disseminate satellite images in cover area (North of South America, Caribe and Central America)

3 – Manaus Unit:

• Support studies of modelling Amazon global changes

INPE AMAZON is formed by 3 units

Facilities – Belém Unit

Facilities – Belém Unit

Facilities – Belém Unit

Facilities – Belém Unit

Where are Belém Unit?

Rapideye®, 2011

UFPA

• 2 laboratories (with computers)

• 2 classes rooms

• 2 meeting rooms

• 21 researches rooms

• 1 auditorium

INFRA STRUCTURE

TEAM

• 7 employees MCTI/INPE

• 10 FUNCATE collaborators

• 2 consultants – spanish and english

• 4 fellowships CNPq/INPE

• 20 trainees

MAIN PROJECTS

• Capacity Building – TCTP – JICA/ABC/INPE/IBAMA (2010-2013)

– ACTO – 3 years/project approved

– FAO – developing documents

• DETEX (with Forest Brazilian Service)

• RADAR images (tests with COSMO SkyMed)

• TerraClass (INPE/CRA – Embrapa CPATU –

CNPTIA)

• OSE Guyana – France and Brazil

• CAF – Latin American Development Bank

• Field works and researches support

CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT

Capacity building projects

TerraAmazon System

Basic concepts on remote sensing, digital image procesing and geoprocesing

Objective: allow technicians to be able to come back to their countries and start the tropical forest monitoring with TerraAmazon System

Training room

FAO – 04-15/October/2010

Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador y México

TCTP – 28 May to 18 June 2011

Angola, Mozambique, Paraguay

TCTP – 17th, October to 4th, November 2011

El Salvador y Panamá

R.D. Congo,

Papua Nueva Guinea y Vietnam

FAO – 19th to 30th, September 2011

Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela y Perú

OTCA – 5th to 16th, March 2012

Skilled Countries – From 2010 to 2013

South America: Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Perú, Ecuador and Paraguay

Central America : Belice, Guatemala, Jamaica, El Salvador, Panamá, México e Barbados

Africa: Angola, Mozambique, República Democrática do Congo, República Popular do Congo, Zambia, Camerún, Senegal, Burkina Faso

Asia: Malasia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Tailandia, Camboya, Vietnam, Papua Nueva Guinea, Filipinas

Number of participants per year

Next Internacional Course: 27/01/14 a 07/02/14

Countries: Bolívia, Colômbia, Equador, Peru, Venezuela

Site http://www.inpe.br/cra/projetos_pesquisas/capacitacao_internacional.php

Projects and countries

TERRACLASS Project

Mapping land use and land

cover of Brazilian Legal Amazon

Deforestation Map from PRODES

Annual Agriculture Embrapa Informática Agropecuária

Secondary Vegetation INPE-Centro Regional da Amazônia

Pastures Embrapa Amazônia Oriental

2008 2010 2008 2010

Classes Total (km2) Total (km2) (%) (%) (%)

Second vegetation 150.815,31 165.229,31 21,26 22,27 9,56

Regeneration with pasture 48.027,37 63.165,46 6,77 8,52 31,52

Pasture with exposed soil 594,19 373,16 0,08 0,05 -37,20

Clean pasture 335.714,95 339.851,87 47,32 45,82 1,23

Dirty pasture 62.823,76 56.076,64 8,85 7,56 -10,74

Forestry 0 3.014,79 0,00 0,41

Mosaic of land uses 24.416,57 17.962,95 3,44 2,42 -26,43

Annual Agriculture 34.927,24 39.977,85 4,92 5,39 14,46

Urban Area 3.818,14 4.473,56 0,54 0,60 17,17

Mining 730,68 966,82 0,10 0,13 32,32

Others 477,88 2.730,64 0,07 0,37 471,41

Non-observed area 45.406,27 45.849,48 6,40 6,18 0,98

Total 707.752,36 739.672,54 100 100 4,51

Pasture Annual

Agriculture

Mosaic of

land uses Other classes

Secondary

Vegetation

7.9

91

km2

(2%

)

Pasture

459.467km2

(2010)

Secondary Vegetation

165.229km2

(2010)

Pasture Annual

Agriculture

Mosaic of

land uses Other

Classes

Secondary

Vegetation

13

5.9

23

km

2

(82

%)

All data are available in:

http://www.inpe.br/cra/projetos_pesquisas/terraclass2010.php

Thank you very much!

alessandra.gomes@inpe.br

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