25 – 29 April 2015, Joao Pessoa
The XVII Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing aimed to bring together the technical and scientific community and the business users in the areas of Remote Sensing and Geotechnology. It was an opportunity for participants to present their research and technological developments, including education and science policy, from the last two years.
The symposium is recognised as a premier event in the field of remote sensing and geotechnologies in South America. This year 1,100 attendees from 25 countries, plus all the Brazilian states, visited the symposium. Many interested participants approached EUMETSAT’s stand, mainly curious about vegetation mapping and access to our data. During the event there were presentations on GEONETCast-EUMETCast” and on future meteorological systems, such as EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)
Following the implementation of EUMETCast-Americas in 2006, the number of user stations has grown from two to around 40 in Brazil. Meteosat is the main source of meteorological imagery and its use for scientific studies related to weather is as widespread as that of GOES.