ACTO
The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization – ACTO borns from the Amazon Cooperation Treaty, which was created to strengthen the cooperation among the eight countries that share the Amazon. In order to achieve this objective, ACTO has many coordinating offices that execute the activities for the different themes.
In the framework of the Amazon Cooperation Strategic Agenda (AESA), the Coordinating Office For the Environment is in charge of developing and implementing coordination mechanisms and instruments in the context of the formulation of regional cooperation proposals and initiatives, which ensures the gradual consolidation of the Amazon Continental as an area of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
This coordinating office includes the project “Monitoring of Deforestation, Logging and Land Use Change in the Amazon Forest”. This project is funded by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, the member countries of the ACTO, the International Tropical Timber Organization and the governments of Netherlands and Germany, with resources of US$ 6,9 million.
The training courses take place at INPE’s Amazon Regional Center, located in Belém, Brazil. The technical personnel of the Member Countries receive training in forest cover monitoring in the region, so that countries have the conditions to implement the systems through transferring technology offered by the INPE.
After been presented to INPE’s projects, participants are instructed to operate the TerraAmazon system, and then to implement the system in their countries through observation rooms, where the process is accompanied by INPE.
Programme of the Course:
• Institutional presentations
• Deforestation situation presented by the guest countries
• Presentation of Amazon INPE's projects
• Terra Family introduction
• Cartography and remote sensing concepts
• TerraAmazon installation
• Database creation in TerraAmazon
• Digital Image Processing in TerraAmazon
• Database creation, editing and processing practices
Information:
http://www.otca.info/portal/coordenacao-interna.php?p=otca&coord=2
In the framework of the Amazon Cooperation Strategic Agenda (AESA), the Coordinating Office For the Environment is in charge of developing and implementing coordination mechanisms and instruments in the context of the formulation of regional cooperation proposals and initiatives, which ensures the gradual consolidation of the Amazon Continental as an area of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
This coordinating office includes the project “Monitoring of Deforestation, Logging and Land Use Change in the Amazon Forest”. This project is funded by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, the member countries of the ACTO, the International Tropical Timber Organization and the governments of Netherlands and Germany, with resources of US$ 6,9 million.
The training courses take place at INPE’s Amazon Regional Center, located in Belém, Brazil. The technical personnel of the Member Countries receive training in forest cover monitoring in the region, so that countries have the conditions to implement the systems through transferring technology offered by the INPE.
After been presented to INPE’s projects, participants are instructed to operate the TerraAmazon system, and then to implement the system in their countries through observation rooms, where the process is accompanied by INPE.
Programme of the Course:
• Institutional presentations
• Deforestation situation presented by the guest countries
• Presentation of Amazon INPE's projects
• Terra Family introduction
• Cartography and remote sensing concepts
• TerraAmazon installation
• Database creation in TerraAmazon
• Digital Image Processing in TerraAmazon
• Database creation, editing and processing practices
Information:
http://www.otca.info/portal/coordenacao-interna.php?p=otca&coord=2
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