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Production, visualization and analysis of large volumes of remote sensing images modeled as multidimensional data cubes for the entire Brazilian territory.

Impact of land tenure on deforestation control and forest restoration in Brazilian Amazonia

by  Gilberto Camara4,1, Rolf Simoes1, Heloisa M Ruivo1, Pedro R Andrade1, Aline C Soterroni3, Fernando M Ramos1, Rafael G Ramos1, Marluce Scarabello1, Claudio Almeida1, Ieda Sanches1, Luis Maurano1, Alexandre Coutinho2, Julio Esquerdo2, João Antunes2, Adriano Venturieri2 and Marcos Adami1 1- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Av. dos Astronautas, 1.758, São José dos Campos 12227-010, Brazil 2- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Av. André Tosello, 209, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil 3- Department …

New article published by the Brazil Data Cube team in partnership with the University of Munster, Germany, and LABISA/DIOTG.

The article “Brazil Data Cube Workflow Engine: a tool for big Earth observation data processing” was published this week in the journal “International Journal of Digital Earth” by the Brazil Data Cube project team in partnership with the University of Munster, Germany, and the LabISA/DIOTG Laboratory. The article demonstrates the advances in research and development …

Brazil Data Cube Workflow Engine: a tool for bigEarth observation data processing

by  Vitor C. F. Gomes¹, Gilberto R. Queiroz², Karine R. Ferreira², Edzer Pebesma³ and Claudio C. F. Barbosa² ¹ C4ISR Division, Institute for Advanced Studies (IEAv), São José dos Campos, Brazil;² Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil;³ Institut für Geoinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2313099 …

The Brazil Data Cube team presented a course at the XIII Journey of Education in Remote Sensing in Manaus

This week, from November 21st to 25th, 2023, the XIII Remote Sensing Education Journey within Mercosur is taking place at the Normal Superior School, State University of Amazonas, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. On the first day of the event, November 21st, the BDC team conducted the course ‘Earth Observation Data Cubes and Analysis of Temporal …

Brazil Data Cube platform for crop mapping

The new paper “Improving crop mapping in Brazil’s Cerrado from a data cubes-derived Sentinel-2 temporal analysis”, published by the researchers Michel Chaves and Ieda Sanches, highlights the use of the Brazil Data Cube Platform for agricultural area mapping in Brazil. Based on spectral indices extracted from Sentinel-2/MSI satellite data cubes with temporal resolution of five …

BDC participated in the “TerraClass Brazil” Workshop.

The BDC team participated in the discussions and presented the project’s solutions at the “TerraClass Brazil” Workshop – Mapping Land Cover and Land Use in Brazil, held on October 16th and 17th at IBGE in Rio de Janeiro. The objective of the workshop was to gather experts in geotechnologies to devise the best organizational and …

A reproducible and replicable approach for harmonizing Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 images

by Rennan de Freitas Bezerra Marujo¹, Felipe Menino Carlos¹ ², Raphael Willian da Costa¹, Jeferson de Souza Arcanjo¹, José Guilherme Fronza¹ ³, Anderson Reis Soares¹ 4 , Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz¹, Karine Reis Ferreira¹ ¹ National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São Paulo, Brazil² Group on Earth Observation (GEO), Reston, VA, United States³ The Nature Conservancy, Florianópolis, …

Brazil Data Cube attended the event “Capacity Program Strengthening Geospatial Capacities in the Caribbean”

The BDC team presented the project at “Webinar 3: ODC Use Cases”, at the “Capacity Program event Strengthening Geospatial Capacities in the Caribbean” that took place on June 27, 2023, remotely. The presentation “Accessing and Processing Brazilian Earth Observation Data Cubes with the Open Data Cube Platform” demonstrated the integration between the Brazil Data Cube …

The Brazil Data Cube project is presented in the Land & Carbon Lab’s 2023 Summit event

The BDC team presented the project in the Land & Carbon Lab’s 2023 Summit – Monitoring Land, Mobilizing Action, which took place June 27-29, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. The data and software products developed in the project for land use and land cover mapping using image time series analysis and artificial intelligence were presented in …

Brazil Data Cube project in the GEO Open Data and Open Knowledge Workshop in Geneva.

The Brazil Data Cube project was presented yesterday in the GEO Open Data and Open Knowledge Workshop. The Open Data and Open Knowledge is a two-day workshop organized by the Data Working Group, together with the GEOSS Platform and the GEO Knowledge Hub teams, that took place in Geneva from 15-16 June 2023. The workshop …

Brazil Data Cube - 2019 - 2025