Plataforma para Análise e Visualização de Grandes Volumes de Dados Geoespaciais
Production, visualization and analysis of large volumes of remote sensing images modeled as multidimensional data cubes for the entire Brazilian territory.
The article “A Scalable Clustering-Based Method for Vegetation Mapping in Large Areas Using Satellite Image Time Series” has been published in the scientific journal *Remote Sensing*. It presents a scalable, clustering-based approach for vegetation mapping over large areas using satellite image time series. The study is the outcome of the Ph.D. research conducted by Baggio …
The article “A tool for crop phenology metrics analysis from big Earth observation data” was published this week in the journal “Big Earth Data” by the Brazil Data Cube project team, which presents technologies developed to meet the demands of the agricultural sector. It is the result of research conducted by PhD candidate Gabriel Sansigolo …
The Panoptes project, led by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) with the participation of INPE researchers Karine Ferreira, Gilberto Queiroz, Marcos Adami, and Thales Korting, was the winner of the Reconhe-Ser Award 2025, receiving recognition from both the technical committee and the jury. Developed using data and technologies from the Brazil Data Cube, the …
Embrapa has released a new version of the Vegetation Temporal Analysis System (SATVeg), a platform widely used for vegetation monitoring through time series of spectral index data. The update brings significant improvements in performance, features, and especially in the expansion of data sources. Developed by Embrapa, SATVeg is a web platform that provides historical information …
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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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 …