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 with innovative technological development.
The paper is the result of research by PhD student Gabriel Sansigolo and researchers Dr. Karine Reis Ferreira, Dr. Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz, Dr. Marcos Adami and Dr. Thales Sehn Körting, all from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Gabriel Sansigolo is supervised by Karine Reis Ferreira and Gilberto Ribeiro de Queiroz from the Postgraduate Program in Applied Computing, and in his research he has developed an open and free web service called Web Crop Phenology Metrics Service (WCPMS), designed to extract phenological metrics from large volumes of remote sensing images. This service offers consolidated algorithms for extracting phenology metrics, integrated with a large set of data cubes from various satellite constellations, including Sentinel-2, Landsat Collection 2, CBERS, AMAZONIA-1 and others. The work was carried out as part of the Brazil Data Cube (BDC) project and during the doctorate in Applied Computing (CAP), making it an achievement for both the BDC and the CAP postgraduate program. In addition, this research represents the first stage of new technologies that the BDC is developing to meet the demands of the agricultural sector.
The recognition highlights Brazil Data Cube’s commitment to training new researchers, applied computing and strengthening free open technologies.
The work will be published in the Proceedings of the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing (SBSR).
