- Gilberto Camara
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name = Gilberto Câmara
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caption = Gilberto Câmara, January 2005
birth_date =March 29 ,1956
birth_place =Fortaleza ,Ceará ,Brazil
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fields =Remote sensing
workplaces =INPE
alma_mater =ITA ,INPE
doctoral_advisor = Marco Antônio Casanova
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known_for = Amazon deforestation monitoring
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footnotes = New system for monitoring forest degradation, Deter, has potential if politicians let it function.Gilberto Câmara is Director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) for the period 2006 to 2010. Previously, he was head of
INPE ’s Image Processing Division from 1991 to 1996 and Director for Earth Observation from 2001 to 2005.He is a researcher in the areas of Geographical Information Science, Spatial Databases, Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modelling. According to data available in Google Scholar, his number of citations is 1123, as March 2007. Gilberto is the principal investigator on the area of Spatial Databases and Spatial Environmental Models in the GEOMA research network for Environmental Modelling of Amazonia. He is responsible for setting up data policies for CBERS images in Brazil and abroad, and for creating INPE’s Remote Sensing Data Center, which has put 30 years of imagery on-line. He was also responsible for setting up a system for real-time detection of deforestation in Amazonia and for making PRODES deforestation maps available on the Internet.
He is a professor in INPE’s graduate programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science, a member of Scientific Steering Committee of the
Global Land Project and of the editorial board of the Journal of Earth Science Informatics.References
* [http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto Personal homepage]
* [http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/Profile_072406.html Promoting Data Free for All - Space News]
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