Gilberto Camara

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Gilberto Câmara
Gilberto Câmara, January 2005
Born	March 29, 1956 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Residence	São José dos Campos, São Paulo
Fields	Remote sensing
Institutions	INPE
Alma mater	ITA, INPE
Doctoral advisor	Marco Antônio Casanova
Known for	Amazon deforestation monitoring
Influences	Marina Silva
Notes New system for monitoring forest degradation, Deter, has potential if politicians let it function.

Gilberto Câmara is Director of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) for the period 2006 to 2010. Previously, he was head of INPE’s Image Processing Division from 1991 to 1996 and Director for Earth Observation from 2001 to 2005.

He is a researcher in the areas of Geographical Information Science, Spatial Databases, Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modelling. According to data available in Google Scholar, his number of citations is 1123, as March 2007. Gilberto is the principal investigator on the area of Spatial Databases and Spatial Environmental Models in the GEOMA research network for Environmental Modelling of Amazonia. He is responsible for setting up data policies for CBERS images in Brazil and abroad, and for creating INPE’s Remote Sensing Data Center, which has put 30 years of imagery on-line. He was also responsible for setting up a system for real-time detection of deforestation in Amazonia and for making PRODES deforestation maps available on the Internet.

He is a professor in INPE’s graduate programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science, a member of Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Project and of the editorial board of the Journal of Earth Science Informatics.