INPE and Forest Service of the MMA Secure Partnership

Hello reader!

It follows one communicates published in english on the day (22/07) in the website of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) announcing that the institute secured a partnership with the Forestall Brazilian Service, connected with the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), to monitor concessions.

Duda Falcão


INPE Along with the Forestall Service Establish a

Partnership to Monitor the Concessionary Corporations


July 22, 2010

The monitoring of wood exploitation in public forests has been formalized earlier this month with the signing of a technical cooperation agreement between the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), an agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) and the Brazilian Forest Service, attached to the Ministry of Environment (MMA). The main objective of the partnership is to enable control and monitoring of the wood exploitation in areas of forestalls concession.

In order to make the selective logging detection, INPE has been developing the DETEX, a new system for analysis and monitoring of forest coverage based on satellite images.

The system of INPE will be used to check whether the forestall exploitation that is under the concession agreement is happening, and the intensity and on periods established in the Sustainable Management Plan guided by the Forest Service. It also will be used to detect illegal logging.

For DETEX to get into operation, it is being performed a complete inventory of public forests, based on the deforestation data of the years 2005 and 2006. INPE has already completed the mapping of the National Forest (NF) of the Jamari, Rondônia State; it was the first concession of the country where the productive activities should begin later this year. The mapping of the NF-Saracá Taquera, Pará, is also ready and the next to be completed are the Amana and FLONAs Crepori in the same state.

According to the Forestall Service, the satellite monitoring of areas in concession will generate more detailed information than those that have been used today, so that it will be possible to monitor the activities of the dealers spatially. In possession of this information, the Forestall Service is able to identify where the storage yards are and where the roads were opened to discharge the production within the management unit, as well as any potential operation outside the designated area.

Capacity

INPE has also begun to train technicians of the Forestall Service who work with remote sensing in the digital image processing field to highlight the distinctive features of the selective logging. The agreement also expects skills in geographic information systems and management, space database, which will help the Forest Service to have teams capable of improving the Brazilian public forest monitoring.


Detex enhances image to identify the operation

(in yellow deforested areas)


In purple and blue colors, areas identified by DETEX.

The green spots correspond to forestall degradation,

while the yellow ones, are the regions mapped

by the PRODES system as deforestation




Source: WebSite of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE)

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