Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado

Carlos Frederico Angelis

Sérgio Pereira

Fabiano MorelliInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas EspaciaisCentro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climático

•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

Outcome

South America: region of physical and social South America: region of physical and social contrastscontrasts

Semi arid

Industrial area

Agriculture

Rain Forest

• Fire

• Flood

• Drought

• Landslide

• Storms

• Lightning

• Severe wind

• Hail

• etc.

Examples of ImagesInfravermelho

Vapor d´água

Visível

Infravermelho com reace de nuvens frias

Composta RGB Infravermelho e Visível

Real Time Precipitation Estimation Using GOES 10

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

UV INDEX

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

Fire Risk for South America

http://www.cptec.inpe.br/queimadashttp://www.cptec.inpe.br/queimadas

GOES-10 Satellite Winds – Images and Bufr format

Lightning – Information on LineLightning – Information on Line

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Lim ite B acia de l P rata

Instante Inicial

Metodologia de tracking

WEATHER RADAR DATA INTEGRATIONWEATHER RADAR DATA INTEGRATION

DATA AVAILABLE ON LINE

What is necessary to the What is necessary to the information be useful and reach information be useful and reach the stakeholders and end - usersthe stakeholders and end - users

Data Integration - Data Integration - same formatsame format and measurements and measurements proceduresprocedures

Have information with Have information with qualityquality, without , without latencylatency and a and a reliable flux of data (reliable flux of data (operationaoperational)l)

Software based in GIS – Software based in GIS – friendly usefriendly use and open source and open source

Training, Training, Data Utilization Data Utilization and Support – low cost – and Support – low cost – TeletrainingTeletraining

Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos ClimáticosCentro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos ClimáticosWeather Forecast and Climate Studies CentreWeather Forecast and Climate Studies Centre

CPTECCPTEC

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

SIGMA: GIS for Environmental Applications SIGMA: GIS for Environmental Applications

Radar data

SIGMA: GIS for Environmental ApplicationsSIGMA: GIS for Environmental Applications

SOS: Severe Weather Observation SystemSOS: 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.

R A R S – South AmericaR 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

Regional RequestsRegional Requests

Run the simplified AAPP SOFTWARE at each site for each NOAA Run the simplified AAPP SOFTWARE at each site for each NOAA satellite passagesatellite passage

Prepare the NOAA ATOVS 1C data and send to regional centerPrepare the NOAA ATOVS 1C data and send to regional center

Regional Center make available in near real time the ATOVS level Regional Center make available in near real time the ATOVS level 1C in BuFr format to all user by DVB, Internet or GTS1C in BuFr format to all user by DVB, Internet or GTS

NOAA Reception StationNOAA Reception Station Fortaleza (Funceme)Fortaleza (Funceme) Natal (Marinha /UFRN)Natal (Marinha /UFRN) Cachoeira Paulista (INPE)Cachoeira Paulista (INPE) Rio de Janeiro (Marinha, COPPE)Rio de Janeiro (Marinha, COPPE) Brasília (INMET)Brasília (INMET) Cuiaba (INPE)Cuiaba (INPE)

Manaus (SIVAM)Manaus (SIVAM)

CHILE:CHILE:SantiagoSantiagoPunto ArenasPunto ArenasAntártidaAntártida

ARGENTINA:ARGENTINA:Villa Ortuzar (Buenos Aires)Villa Ortuzar (Buenos Aires)CONAE (Córdoba)CONAE (Córdoba)Marambio (Antártida) Marambio (Antártida)

Two Pilots ProjectsTwo Pilots Projectsin Brazil (4 Satellite Stations)in Brazil (4 Satellite Stations)In Argentina (3 Satellite Stations)In Argentina (3 Satellite Stations)

Project Proposal Project Proposal - - DevCoCastDevCoCast GEONETCast applications for and by GEONETCast applications for and by

Developing CountriesDeveloping Countries..

VGT4SAMERICA

AFRICast SAMERICast

YEOSCast

ChloroCastCast

The proposed DevCoCast project will test the GEONETCast concept by

1. Broadcast South-American local data to other regions in South-America. -SAMERICast

2. Broadcast African local data to other regions in Africa - AFRICast3. Broadcasting the VGT4AFRICA data to South America - VGT4SAMERICA

4. Broadcasting the YEOS data to ASIA - YEOSCast5. Broadcasting the AFRICA-GOOS data to Africa - ChloroCast

Geert BorstlapVITO - Flemish Institute for Technological ResearchTAP - Centre for Remote Sensing and Atmospheric Processes

INPE DATA DISSEMINATIONINPE DATA DISSEMINATION

Provider Product Disasters Health Energy Climate Water Ecosystems Agriculture Biodiversity WeatherINPE Fire detection product x x x x x x xINPE Fire detection ASCII x x x x x x xINPE Rainfall satellite x x x x x x xINPE Fortracc images x x x x x xINPE Number of days without rain x x x x x x x xINPE Lightning discharges images x x x x x xINPE GOES-MSG Composites x x x x x xINPE UltraViolet Index x x xINPE Vegetation Index (NDVI) x x x x x

GEO Benefit areas:

ConclusionConclusion There is a broad range of There is a broad range of societal benefitssocietal benefits by using by using

Environmental InformationEnvironmental Information The information is available to be used.The information is available to be used. There is capacity building structure available to help There is capacity building structure available to help

improving the societal benefitsimproving the societal benefits

Is very difficult to integrate the information available Is very difficult to integrate the information available inside the same country or between different inside the same country or between different countriescountries

The users don't know how to use the information.The users don't know how to use the information. The data The data dissemination systemdissemination system need to be improve need to be improve

and broadly used.and broadly used.

The ambition is to embed the enviromental data The ambition is to embed the enviromental data in in systematic local and national planning and decision systematic local and national planning and decision

making processesmaking processes