“Building public good instituions in emerging nations” Gilberto Câmara Director, National Institute for Space Research Brazil University of Muenster, 28 April 2011

Human development index?

Institutions are the key Justice Public health Information Knowledge

Divided we stand Dom Helder Câmara: When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why are they poor, they call me a communist." HAL to human: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

Public goods Non-rival An individual's consumption of a good leads to no subtractions from any other individual's consumption of that good Non-excludable it is not acceptable to exclude any individuals from consuming the good

Geospatial data are public goods

"We went to explore the Moon, and in fact discovered the Earth." Eugene Cernan photo: NASA

Agriculture Energy Ecosystems Climate change Weather and natural disasters Space technology adds value to Brazil´s natural knowledge economy Megacities

The fundamental question of our time fonte: IGBP How is the Earth’s environment changing, and what are the consequences for human civilization?

Global Change Where are changes taking place? How much change is happening? Who is being impacted by the change? What is causing change? Human actions and global change photo: A. Reenberg photo: C. Nobre

Slides from LANDSAT Aral Sea images: USGS Geoinformatics and Change: A Research Programme How do we decide on the use of natural resources? Can we describe and predict changes resulting from human decisions? What computational tools are needed to model human- environment decision making?

Nature: Physical equations Describe processes Society: Decisions on how to Use Earth´s resources We need spatially explicit models to understand human-environment interactions

Scientists and Engineers Photo 51(Franklin, 1952) Scientists build in order to study Engineers study in order to build

Inspirations on GIscience and technology KuhnEgenhoferFrank MonteiroCartaxo

Inspiration for public service: Marina Silva "I trust INPE’s data, whether good or bad for my government"

15-day warnings of newly deforested large areas Real-time Deforestation Monitoring

“By 2020, Brazil will reduce deforestation by 80% relative to 2005.” (pres. Lula in Copenhagen COP-15) Transparency builds governance

CBERS as a global satellite CBERS ground stations will cover most of the Earth’s land mass between 30 0 N and 30 0 S

“If Brazil can do it, US can do it too”

A vision for the future A constellation of satellites and sensors will provide free earth observation data for all countries on Earth

EO data: benefits to everyone Some lessons from best practices on space programs Develop applications before satellites Focus on Earth observation Science and engineering belong together