The fundamental question of our time How is

The fundamental question of our time How is the Earth’s environment changing, and what are the consequences for human civilization?

Earth is a system of systems

Impacts on Agriculture

Collapse of Amazon Rain Forest?

Amazônia in 2005

Amazônia in 2015?

INPE´s supercomputers and world´s TOP 500

Earth System Science Data Handling

Weather and climate

ARGOS Data Collection System (16000 plats)

Argo bouy network

Models: From Global to Local

Data integration enables crucial links between nature and society Nature: Physical equations Describe processes Society: Decisions on how to Use Earth´s resources

mobile devices augmented reality Data-centered, mobile-enabled, contribution-based, field-based modelling sensor networks ubiquitous images and maps

Slides from LANDSAT Aral Sea Bolivia

Identity conditions on ST data Average temp for IPCC scenarios Continuous fields (x, y, z, t)

Identity conditions on ST data land_cover cells in 1985 land_cover cells in 2000 Individual objects (id, {t, {(x, y, z)}})

Identity conditions on ST data: Images

Identity conditions on ST data: Images

Identity conditions on ST data: Images

Identity conditions on ST data: Images

Identity conditions have uncertain cases!

Outiline of a theory for change modelling in spatio-temporal data

What is a geo-sensor?

What is a geo-sensor?

Aral Sea Slides from LANDSAT Bolivia

Sensors: sources of continuous information

Sensors: water monitoring in Brazilian Cerrado

Fixed sensors: time series (histories)

Evolving (modifiable) object

Which objects are alive at time T and where are they?

Models: From Global to Local

A model for time-varying geospatial data. .

ST DBMS as a basis for data integration Visualization (Terra. View) Modelling (Terra. ME) Spatio-temporal Database (Terra. Lib) Statistics (a. RT) Data Mining(Geo. DMA)

GIS-21: Dynamical modelling integrated in a spatio-temporal database Spatio-temporal database

GIS-21: Dynamical modelling integrated in a spatio-temporal database

GIE-21: Network-based analysis Modelling beef chains in Amazonia

GIS-21: Dynamical spatial modelling with Agents in Cell Spaces Terra. ME: Based on functional programming concepts (second-order functions) to develop dynamical models

R-Terralib interface