1. South America Remote Sensing Data Integration
Based in Web GIS for Environmental
Applications and Severe Storm Warning
Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado
Carlos Frederico Angelis
Sérgio Pereira
Fabiano Morelli
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climático

2. Outcome The importance of Environmental Information for South America
The INPE/CPTEC Weather and Environmental Satellite Products
Data Integration : The weather radar example
The Geographical Information System for Environmental Applications
The Virtual Lab for Training
The RARS (Regional ATOVS Retransmission System)
The GEONETCast applications for and by Developing Countries

3. South America: region of physical and social contrasts
Industrial area
Agriculture
Rain Forest
Semi arid
Fire
Flood
Drought
Landslide
Storms
Lightning
Severe wind
Hail
etc.

5. Examples of Images Infravermelho Vapor d´água Visível
Infravermelho com reace de nuvens frias
Composta RGB Infravermelho e Visível

6. Real Time Precipitation Estimation Using GOES 10

7. Number of Days Without Rain Accumulated rainfall in the last 30 Days

8. UV INDEX

9. Fire Detection Using NOAA,MODIS,MSG,GOES-10

10. Fire Risk for South America

11. GOES-10 Satellite Winds – Images and Bufr format

12. Lightning – Information on Line

14. WEATHER RADAR DATA INTEGRATION

15. DATA AVAILABLE ON LINE

16. What is necessary to the information be useful and reach the stakeholders and end - users
Data Integration - same format and measurements procedures
Have information with quality, without latency and a reliable flux of data (operational)
Software based in GIS – friendly use and open source
Training, Data Utilization and Support – low cost – Teletraining

17. Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Centre CPTEC
The amount of daily data produced, together with environmental, social, economical and other information require advanced techniques to manipulate and make them available to users.
A web based GIS is the ideal tool to facilitate handling information by users

18. SIGMA: GIS for Environmental Applications

19. SIGMA: GIS for Environmental Applications
Radar data

20. SOS: Severe Weather Observation System
The use of nowcasting together with SIGMA allows the monitoring of severe weather conditions and emission of alerts when a critical situation is detected.

24. R A R S – South America . Regional ATOVS Retransmission System
Main Goal – Decrease latency time for data assimilation in numerical weather prediction models
Data Integration - Effort .

25. Regional Requests
Run the simplified AAPP SOFTWARE at each site for each NOAA satellite passage
Prepare the NOAA ATOVS 1C data and send to regional center
Regional Center make available in near real time the ATOVS level 1C in BuFr format to all user by DVB, Internet or GTS

26. NOAA Reception Station
Fortaleza (Funceme)
Natal (Marinha /UFRN)
Cachoeira Paulista (INPE)
Rio de Janeiro (Marinha, COPPE)
Brasília (INMET)
Cuiaba (INPE)
Manaus (SIVAM)
CHILE:
Santiago
Punto Arenas
Antártida
ARGENTINA:
Villa Ortuzar (Buenos Aires)
CONAE (Córdoba)
Marambio (Antártida)
Two Pilots Projects
in Brazil (4 Satellite Stations)
In Argentina (3 Satellite Stations)

27. Project Proposal - DevCoCast GEONETCast applications for and by Developing Countries.
The proposed DevCoCast project will test the GEONETCast concept by
Broadcast South-American local data to other regions in South-America. -SAMERICast
Broadcast African local data to other regions in Africa - AFRICast
Broadcasting the VGT4AFRICA data to South America - VGT4SAMERICA
Broadcasting the YEOS data to ASIA - YEOSCast
Broadcasting the AFRICA-GOOS data to Africa - ChloroCast
Geert Borstlap VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research TAP - Centre for Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Processes

28. INPE DATA DISSEMINATION

29. Conclusion
There is a broad range of societal benefits by using Environmental Information
The information is available to be used.
There is capacity building structure available to help improving the societal benefits
Is very difficult to integrate the information available inside the same country or between different countries
The users don't know how to use the information.
The data dissemination system need to be improve and broadly used.
The ambition is to embed the enviromental data in systematic local and national planning and decision making processes