Welcome! I am a researcher on Geoinformatics, Spatial Analysis, and Environmental Modelling in the Image Processing Division of INPE, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. I have published over 150 papers that have been cited more than 5000 times and advised 22 PhD dissertations and 25 MsC thesis.

Our team develops open source GIS software: SPRING, an object-oriented GIS, the TerraLib GIS library, the TerraME toolbox for spatial modelling, the functional GIS tool TerraHS, and the geographical data mining software GeoDMA.

From December 2005 to May 2012, I was INPE's general director, leading INPE to set up a free and open access policy for its data and products. INPE's budget grew from US$ 90 million in 2004 to US$ 250 million in 2010. We defined a long-term strategic plan, signed major contracts with Brazilian industries, created the Centre for Earth System Science and the Centre for Space Research in Amazonia. We got a new supercomputer for weather and climate prediction and set up a program in Space Weather. INPE's forest monitoring by satellites helped to cut deforestation in Amazonia by 80% from 2005 to 2012.

I was recognized as a Dr. Honoris Causa by the University of Muenster (Germany), as a Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite of France, and received the Global Citizen Award from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association. I got the 2012 Pecora Award from USGS and NASA for "leadership to the broad and open access to remote sensing data".

For more information, please see my short CV or my complete CV in Portuguese. Contact me: gilberto.camara AT inpe.br.