Brazil international monitoring program integrates climate
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Technical cooperation agreement signed between the National Water Agency (ANA) and the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) will enable the development of support activities for the measurement of rainfall by satellite.
Thus, Brazil will join the Program for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM), a joint initiative of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Jaxa, Japanese space agency. France and India also joined the program.
According to the Superintendent's Management Network of hydrometeorological ANA, Valdemar Guimaraes, the Brazilian agencies want to build and maintain a network designed to collect rainfall data.
According to the AEB, information obtained will enable improvements in the management of water resources, in planning the activities of agribusiness, the warnings of severe storms, flooding and landslide risks in the forecasts of time, the understanding of the hydrological cycle and global and regional analysis of global climate change.
The data transmitted by the satellites will be validated by the telemetric stations, platforms, ground collections of information with satellite transmission. The country has, currently, with more than 8 thousand stations.
This is the second largest network in the Americas, after the United States. Brazil also has the second largest system of information on this part of water resources, said Guimaraes.
He says the data will be recorded every three hours and the Amazon region have increased monitoring, since it is an area of difficult access. To maintain this network automated, Brazil will have to invest at least for five to ten years, something around R $ 130 million, he added.
To Valdemar Guimarăes, the country will benefit from detailed knowledge of the atmosphere and generate basic information that enable implications in several areas such as agriculture, water management, electric power generation and prevention of natural disasters.
Source: State Agency
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