1. Data Democracy Anticipated Outcomes in 2010 Agenda item: 23 Presented by: Julio Dalge (INPE) INPE PoC for CEOS 1 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 2009

2. Background and Achievements The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20092  2004 – CBERS free data policy in Brazil CBERS data available on the Internet free of charges  2007 – CBERS for Africa Initiative Extension of CBERS free data policy for Africa  2008 – Data Democracy Initiative led by CSIR  2008 – Unrestricted and full access to Landsat data  2009 – Data Democracy Initiative led by GISTDA  2009 – ESA announced free GMES satellite data  2010 – Data Democracy Initiative to be led by INPE

3. Public EO Data Dissemination The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20093  Continuation of free access to CBERS and Landsat data acquired and distributed by INPE  Check the numbers of CBERS distribution in Brazil … SATELLITECAMERADOWNLOADS 2008DOWNLOADS 2009 * CBERS-2 IRMSS3,0432,142 CCD56,52920,857 WFI258100 CBERS-2B HRC46,360108,058 CCD61,89551,288 WFI1,207993 * As of October 29 th

4. Public EO Data Dissemination The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20094  CBERS for Africa Initiative Agreements signed with South Africa (CSIR), Spain (INTA), and Egypt (NARSS) Hartebeeshoek operational but with processing issues Maspalomas became pre-operational in early September Aswan is expected to begin operations in December Malindi would complete coverage over Equatorial Africa Gabon is working to set up a CBERS ground station INPE is committed to continue this initiative in 2010  Sentinel Asia support to disaster management

5. Public EO Data Dissemination The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20095  CBERS for Africa Initiative

6. Free and Open-Source Software The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20096  Image orthorectification tools by INPE Add-on function for SPRING GIS (www.dpi.inpe.br/spring) Command line stand-alone program for Linux and Windows  Continuous development of free and open-source Image Processing and GIS technologies by INPE TerraLib GIS classes and functions library (www.terralib.org) Marlin image visualization tool (www.dgi.inpe.br/CDSR) Sismaden computational architecture based on services for disaster management (www.dpi.inpe.br/sismaden)  INPE and GISTDA intend to discuss the possibility of designing a Data Democracy Portal

7. Training in GIS and Remote Sensing The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20097  INPE’s actions in accordance to the GEO CB strategy Development of training material and training programs for African end-users of CBERS images Training programs in techniques for forest monitoring (www.dpi.inpe.br/terraamazon) Build capacities to allow end-users to solve their own problems  Training programs to South African Development Community Universities (CSIR)  Training on data access and management of natural disasters in Southeastern Asia (GISTDA)

8. Conclusions The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20098  Data Democracy concept goes beyond data access and needs to include software availability and training  Data Democracy concept certainly relies on a more active participation of CEOS agencies  INPE will go on with the Data Democracy concept Support to the new GEO Task on Data Democracy Participation in the GEOSS Data Sharing Task Force  INPE encourages CEOS agencies to join us!

9. Thanks … The 23 rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 November 20099  To CSIR for initiating the Data Democracy project  To GISTDA for understanding its importance and assuring its continuation  To all CEOS agencies committed to the idea that data being widely used is much more important than data being only archived What does it mean to be part of a CEOS satellite constellation? Technical challenges, financial and political issues?  To all of you, thanks for your time and contributions