What is Brazil Data Cube?
Brazil Data Cube is a research, development and technological innovation project of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil. It is producing data sets from big volumes of medium-resolution remote sensing images for the entire national territory and developing a computational platform to process and analyze these data sets using artificial intelligence, machine learning and image time series analysis.
Brazil Data Cube is part of the “Environmental Monitoring of Brazilian Biomes project“, funded by the Amazon Fund through the financial collaboration of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) and the Foundation for Science, Technology and Space Applications (FUNCATE) no. 17.2.0536.1 .
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Recent 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 …
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 …
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Brazil Data Cube project reference paper
by Karine R. Ferreira,Gilberto R. Queiroz,Lubia Vinhas,Rennan F. B. Marujo,Rolf E. O. Simoes,Michelle C. A. Picoli,Gilberto Camara,Ricardo Cartaxo,Vitor C. F. Gomes,Lorena A. Santos,Alber H. Sanchez,Jeferson S. Arcanjo,José Guilherme Fronza,Carlos Alberto Noronha,Raphael W. Costa,Matheus C. Zaglia,Fabiana Zioti,Thales S. Korting,Anderson R. Soares,Michel E. D. Chaves andLeila M. G. Fonseca Earth Observation and Geoinformatics Division, National Institute for Space Research …
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