I’ve found the data; it’s free and open access. Now what?
EuroGeoss Conference 2012.
Madrid, January 2012.

Reducing Deforestation in Amazonia: how transparency builds governance.
Eye on Earth Summit Plenary.
Abu Dhabi, December 2011.

How light can the Digital Earth be?
Eye on Earth Summit, Working Group 1 - Policy, Governance, Institutions.
Abu Dhabi, December 2011.

Designing a Global Interoperable Information Network.
Eye on Earth Summit, Working Group 3 - Technical Infrastructure.
Abu Dhabi, December 2011.

Two decades of monitoring land change in Amazonia: what have we learned?.
GLP Workshop on Land Changes in South America, November 2011.

INPE’s activities on Earth Observation.
Seminar on Benefits of Earth Observation, Libreville, Gabon, November 2011.

INPE: Space and Environment R&D for Brazil in the 21st Century .
Visit of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, October 2011.

Land use and human-enviroment interactions in Amazonia.
50 Years of Science in Brazil and Challenges Ahead, FAPESP Week, Washington, October 2011.

Space derived geospatial data for sustainable development.
COPUOS space benefits panel at United Nations, New York, October 2011.

Modelling human-environment interactions with TerraME.
Symposium in Modelling of Terrestrial Systems and Evolution, Ouro Preto, May 2011.

Land Use Change in Amazonia: Institutional analysis and modeling at multiple temporal and spatial scales.
FAPESP Climate Change Program Workshop, May 2011.

New trends for geoinformatics in a changing world.
Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing, May 2011.

Building public good institutions in developing nations.
University of Muenster, Doctor honoris causa acceptance speech, 28 April 2011.

Are we ready for REDD? Multidimensional policies for reducing Amazon deforestation: 2001-2010.
Brazil-MIT Forum, April 2011.

The challenge of global environmental monitoring.
China-Brazil High Level Dialogue in Science and Technology, Beijing 2011.

Extracting Land Change Information from Large Remote Sensing Image Databases.
Spatial Statistics 2011 Conference, Enschede, Netherlands.

Are we ready for REDD? Multidimensional policies for reducing Amazon deforestation: 2001-2010.
Global Land Project - Open Science Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, October 2010.

The CBERS Remote Sensing Program: An Overview (July 2010) .

Collective Spatial Action Models: a Foundation for Assessing Human-Environment Interactions.
Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space, Las Navas, Spain, July 2010.

CEOS space agencies: support for climate observations.
COP-15 side event on "Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (ECV)", Copenhagen, December 2009.

Impacts of Climate Change in Land Use, Food Security and Agricultural Production in Brazil.
COP-15 side event on "Climate change and food security: unifying commitment and action in land-based sectors", Copenhagen, December 2009.

GEO Forest Carbon Tracking Task.
COP-15 side event on "Satellite Observations Contributing to Global Earth System Monitoring", Copenhagen, December 2009.

"Earth Observation Information and Decision Making: An ongoing story".
GEO-IGOS Symposium, Washington, November 2009.

"What is the way forward for CEOS?".
Acceptance speech as CEOS Chair 2010, Phuket, Tailand, November 2009.

"Case-Based Reasoning for Eliciting the Evolution of Geospatial Objects".
Conference on Spatial Information Theory COSIT 2009, Aber Wrach, France, September 2009.

"Beyond OGC Standards: The New Challenges for Open Source GIS".
International Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium, Nantes, July 2009.

"Low Carbon Growth in Brazil".
World Forum on Enterprise and Environment, Oxford, July 2009.

"A Proposal for a Global Forest Information System".
Google Outreach and Moore Foundation Symposium on Forests, April 2009.

"INPE´s vision for monitoring and modelling tropical deforestation".
Brazil-Norway Workshop on Forest and Marine Monitoring, March 2009.

"INPE´s contribution to REDD Capacity Building: data, applications, and software".
Workshop on Capacity Building for REDD, São Jose dos Campos, 2009.

"How to include Human Actions in Earth System Science Modelling?".
Workshop on Earth System Science Modelling, INPE, 2009.

INPE´s contribution to Statistics from Space: data, applications, and software
“Statistics from Space”, Gates Foundation, Seattle, 5-6 November 2008.

Databases and Global Environmental Change
XXIV Brazilian Symposium on Databases, Campinas, October 2008.

Monitoring and Modelling Deforestation in Amazonia .
Schermerhorn Lecture, Opening Academic Year, ITC.
Enschede, September 2008.

Geospatial data for Africa: the Brazilian contribution .
Water resource management & information needs for Africa.
ITC, Enschede, September 2008.

From GIS-20 to GIS-21: The New Generation.
Master Class at ITC, Enschede, September 2008.

Why should emerging nations fly into space? .
Panel on "Emerging Space Nations", International Space University, Barcelona, July 2008.

Contributions to a theory of geographical information engineering .
Scientific Colloquium in honour of Prof. Andrew Frank. Vienna, 2008.

The Vespucci 2020 Vision for Digital Earth: Social and Institutional Issues.
Vespucci Summer Institute on GIScience supporting Virtual Globes, Florence, June 2008.

From Virtual Globes to Open Globes.
Vespucci Specialist Meeting on Virtual Globes, Florence, June 2008

Sensing the Earth: From Global to Local.
Vespucci Summer Institute on Sensor Webs, Florence, June 2008

Free Earth Observation Data on a Global Scale: A View from Brazil.
Royal Society, London, October 2007.

Working at a global scale: challenges for a worldwide tropical forest monitoring system.
GLP Workshop on Globalization and Land Use, Copenhagen, October 2007.

Developments in Land Change Modelling in Amazonia: Governance and Public Policies.
Global Land Project, Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, October 2007.

Brazil's Statement to COPUOS.
COPOUS 50th session, Vienna, June 2007.

Modelling Land Change: The Scientific Challenges.
1st Brazilian Symposium on Global Environmental Change, Rio, March 2007.

Understanding Land Change in Amazonia: A Multidisciplinary Research Challenge.
IGERT Colloquim Series, Department of Geography, SUNY Bufallo, February 2007.

From Pixels to Processes: Detecting the Evolution of Agents in a Landscape .
Department of Geography, SUNY Bufallo, February 2007.

Multimission platform and Brazilian EO satellites
(Updated in october-2006).

INPE report to CEOS
CEOS-20 meeting (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites), Buenos Aires, November 2006.

How can GIScience contribute to land change modelling?
GIScience 2006 keynote, Munster, Germany, September 2006.

The CBERS satellite, data policy and social benefits.
GEO Capacity Building Workshop, São José dos Campos, May 2006.

Earth observation data for everyone: the CBERS experience.
Earth Observation Business Network (EOBN 2006) meeting, Vancouver, 2006.

Monitoring Deforestation in Amazonia (2005).
MCT presentation, Climate Convention, COP-11, Montreal, 2005.

Challenges for Spatio-Temporal Database research.
Spatio-Temporal Database Symposium (SSTD 2005), Angra dos Reis, Brazil, 2005.

Earth Observation at INPE: An Overview .
United Nations Seminar, INPE, February 2005.

What is the Future of the Brazilian Amazon? The Challenges of Spatial Information Modelling.
School of Information Sciences, Penn State University, October 2004.

TerraLib: OpenSource Tools for GIS Applications.
International Postgraduate Course on Geoinformation, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló (Spain), June 2004.

Developing open source GIS: what are the challenges?
Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University of Vienna, June 2004.

The Importance of Improving Access to Environmental Data in the Americas.
CODATA Inter-American Workshop on Environmental Data Access.
Campinas, 2004.

Open Source GIS Development in Brasil.
International Symposium on Open Source and Open Access for Science, CODATA/UNESCO, Paris, 2003.

Frameworks for Sustainability of GIS and Earth Observation Technologies in Developing Countries.
18th International CODATA Conference, Montreal, 2002.

Making International Collaboration Work in Earth Observation: A View from Brazil.
Earth Observation Business Network (EOBN), Vancouver, Canada, May 2002.

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