INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)

Assembled from 12 blocks · 2 evidence · 7 related

1. Story
2. Brazil's national space research institute, based at Sao Jose dos Campos in Sao Paulo state, and the reason the Amazon has a deforestation record at all. Since 1988 it has produced PRODES, an annual wall-to-wall map of clear-cut deforestation across the Legal Amazon, and since 2004 DETER, a near-real-time alert system that flags new clearance within days for enforcement rather than for statistics. The institutional decision that gives the programme its weight is that the data is published openly and in full. That has an uncomfortable corollary, demonstrated in 2019 when the institute's director was dismissed after publicly defending DETER figures that the federal government disputed: an agency that publishes inconvenient numbers about its own country is periodically in political trouble for doing so, and the credibility of the record depends on it continuing anyway.
3. Knowledge
4. INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
5. Connections
6. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
7. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
8. PPCDAm launched and DETER alerts begin
9. INPE's director is dismissed after defending the deforestation data
10. Evidence
11. Supports the existence, method and shape of the annual clear-cut deforestation series for the Brazilian Legal Amazon from 1988 onward. V55 verification basis: the TerraBrasilis portal was probed in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED; no annual value was retrieved. Every specific PRODES figure referred to in this pack is described as commonly reported and flagged as unchecked in the record that mentions it.
12. Supports the distinction between DETER, a rapid alert system built for enforcement, and PRODES, the slower wall-to-wall annual accounting series, and the fact that DETER totals are not the official deforestation rate. V55 verification basis: INPE domains were probed in this session and returned EGRESS_BLOCKED; the system description is stated from the producing model's knowledge.