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Online conference discusses use of big data for land cover and land use mapping
July 04, 2022 10h00 AM | Last Updated: July 04, 2022 10h36 PM
Registration is open for the Conference Using Big Data and Machine Learning for Land Cover and Land Use Mapping – Challenges to Mapping Accuracy, promoted by the UN Big Data Regional Hub in Brazil. The free online event will take place between July 5 and 7, 2022, from 11 am to 1 pm. Click here to register.
The meeting will gather specialists and researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean with the objective of sharing knowledge and forming a community of experts from the countries in the Region. Also, it is intended to facilitate the exchange of information and to foster the discussion about the use of new data sources and technologies.
“The use of new tools, such as remote sensing images, help improve agricultural statistics in different respects: expansion of themes, accuracy, reduction of costs, speed of obtention, for example, being a focal point for national statistical agencies, such as the IBGE,” says Octavio Costa, coordinator of the Agricultural Statistics Department at the Institute.
The following themes will be discussed in the meeting: Big Earth Observation Data for Land Cover and Land Use Mapping: requirements, methodology and products (05/07 Land cover and land use mapping initiatives: advances, results, and challenges in the production of official data (06/07) and Earth Observation applied to agricultural statistics (08/07).
According to the Coordinator of the Amazon Monitoring Program and other Biomes, of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Cláudio Almeida, “knowledge of the territory is fundamental for the support of public policies. Monitoring has advanced with the use of new methods, algorithms and computer structures that can analyze a massive volume of data of satellite images simultaneously”.
The event is being organized by the IBGE, the INPE and the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.BR). Simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, English and Portuguese, the three official languages of the Region, will be provided.
ENCE is coordinator of the Brazilian regional hub
The result of an initiative by the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, the UN Big Data Regional Hub in Brazil was launched in November 2021, 9th Statistical Conference for the Americas, promoted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The hub is based at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE), academic segment of the IBGE that coordinates the efforts and contributions from different areas of the Institute in support of the activities of the Regional Hub.
The initiative has the objective of promoting cooperation between statistical agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean, in order to foster the use of Big Data and of Data Science aiming at the modernization of official statistical production in the Region.
Besides Brazil, other three countries are physical regional hubs of the global platform: China, Rwanda and United Arab Emirates.
