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How light can the Digital Earth be? Gilberto Cmara National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Brazil http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto Eye on Earth Summit, Abu Dhabi, 2011 Slide 2 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 Slide 3 166-112 116-113 116-112 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? Slide 4 Daily warnings of newly deforested large areas Real-time Deforestation Monitoring Slide 5 Policing actions: illegal wood seizure 50% of operations in 2% of the area Slide 6 Transparency builds governance 500.000 registrations 46 million protests Slide 7 Hobbes Rosseau Slide 8 23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 8 Capacity building source: gapminder.org Slide 9 23rd CEOS Plenary I Phuket, Thailand I 3-5 December 2009 9 Empowering source: gapminder.org Slide 10 Virtual Globes Digital Earth OpenStreetMap Wikimapia Slide 11 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 ? Slide 12 Data democracy needs to reach the masses! photo: Yann Arthus Bertrand Slide 13 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 Slide 14 RIO + 20: bulding on principles from RIO-92 We need a new convention on the public availability of environmental information