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How light can the Digital Earth be? Gilberto Câmara National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Brazil http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto Eye on Earth Summit, Abu Dhabi, 2011
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We need a lot of data for decision making! Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia (1988-2011) dropped from 27,000 km 2 to 6,200 km 2
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166-112 116-113 116-112 30 Tb of data 500.000 lines of code 150 man/years of software dev 200 man/years of interpreters How much it takes to survey Amazonia?
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Daily warnings of newly deforested large areas Real-time Deforestation Monitoring
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Policing actions: illegal wood seizure 50% of operations in 2% of the area
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Transparency builds governance 500.000 registrations 46 million protests
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Hobbes Rosseau
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23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 8 Capacity building source: gapminder.org
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23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 9 Empowering source: gapminder.org
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Virtual Globes Digital Earth OpenStreetMap Wikimapia
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Virtual Globes Digital Earth Data + services (can only be provided reliably by organizations that are trusted) Scientists as policy-makers (peer-reviewed results) Citizens as sensors (perception, individual actions) visibility, communication, acessibility ?
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Data democracy needs to reach the masses! photo: Yann Arthus Bertrand
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Environmental issues are best handled with participation of all citizens. Each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment. RIO-92 Declaration – principle #10
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RIO + 20: bulding on principles from RIO-92 We need a new convention on the public availability of environmental information
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