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BDC-Favelas platform, which provides access to remote sensing images of favelas, is featured in FAPESP News

The paper presented at the Workshop Computação Aplicada (WorCAP), titled “BDC-Favelas Explorer: A web portal for accessing and disseminating information about favelas based on Earth observation data” authored by Fabiana Z. Vieira, Gabriel Sansigolo, Flavia Feitosa, Miguel Monteiro, Karine Ferreira, and Gilberto Queiroz, was featured in a FAPESP News article. The BDC-Favelas Explorer builds on …

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Brazil Data Cube team takes part in Geopublica 2025 in Salvador

The Brazil Data Cube (BDC) team participated in Geopública 2025, held in Salvador, Bahia, delivering a presentation on September 16, 2025. The talk was given by Dr. Karine Ferreira Gomes, Head of the Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division at INPE, who discussed the project’s objectives and the challenges of handling large volumes of data. Geopública …

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BDC-Favelas paper receives award at INPE Workshop

The Center for Favela Studies (CEFAVELA-Cepid/Fapesp) and INPE presented the first proof of concept of the BDC-Favelas platform during the Applied Computing Workshop (WorCAP), an annual event organized by INPE’s Graduate Program. The paper “BDC-Favelas Explorer: Web portal for access and dissemination of information on favelas from Earth observation data”, authored by Fabiana Z. Vieira, …

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Brazil Data Cube publishes new article in “Ciência Hoje” Magazine

The BDC project team has just published the article “Brazil Data Cube: big data from satellite images, AI, and cloud computing” in the magazine “Ciência Hoje”. The article presents the Brazil Data Cube platform, developed by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), a technological innovation for organizing, processing, and extracting information from large volumes …

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Three software systems developed in the Brazil Data Cube project have been registered with the INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property)

The Brazil Data Cube (BDC) project, developed in the Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division (DIOTG) and associated with the Georeferenced Information Base (BIG) Strategic Project, has just registered three more software systems with the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). The number of computer systems registered with the INPI is one of the productivity indicators …

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BDC INPE and HARMONIZE Brazil teams (LiSS/LabDrones-DIOTG, INPE) provide training for Fiocruz and InfoDengue team

On June 10, 2025, a training session was held at INPE (São José dos Campos) on the Harmonize Brazil platform—a system developed under the coordination of LiSS/DIOTG, in partnership with the BDC-INPE Project—targeted at teams from InfoDengue and the Observatório do Clima e Saúde (FIOCRUZ/RJ). The initiative aimed to present and explore the potential of …

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Brazil Data Cube team held a special edition of BIG TechTalks in celebration of Love Data Day Brazil

On June 3, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Brazil Data Cube team held a special edition of BIG TechTalks at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in celebration of the Love Data Day Brazil event, promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Open to the public and online, the event reinforces …

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Paper on Brazil Data Cube tool wins award at XXI Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing

The paper entitled “A Web Service for Phenology Metrics Extraction from Big Earth Observation Data” received one of the best paper awards during the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing (SBSR), held from April 13 to 16, 2025, in Salvador, Bahia. The award highlights the relevance of the Brazil Data Cube project’s geoinformatics research aligned …

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Brazil Data Cube’s team attended the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing in 2025

The Brazil Data Cube team actively participated in the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing (SBSR 2025), in Salvador, Bahia, from April 13 to 16. During the event, the team was involved in various activities, starting on April 12, when the mini-course “Earth Observation Data Cubes and Image Time Series Analysis” was given, lasting 8 …

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Brazil Data Cube team organises Workshop at FOSS4G 2024 in Belém, Pará

The Brazil Data Cube (BDC) team organized a workshop to promote hands-on activities on concepts of Earth Observation data cubes and satellite image time series analysis during the first edition of FOSS4G in Latin America, held in Belém, Pará (PA), from December 2 to 8, 2024. FOSS4G is the acronym for Free and Open Source …

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