Profile
Gilberto Câmara is Director of INPE for the
period 2006 to 2010. He is responsible for the administration
of INPE's research and development groups in Space
Science, Space Engineering, Earth Observation and
Weather and Climate Studies. Previously, he was head
of INPE’s Image Processing Division from 1991
to 1996 and Director for Earth Observation from 2001
to 2005.
His research interests include: geographical information
science and engineering, spatial databases, spatial
analysis and environmental modelling. He has published
more than 120 full papers on refereed journals and
scientific conferences, and he is of the leaders of
R&D in GIS and Image Processing in Brazil, notably
in the development of SPRING, a free object-oriented
GIS, and TerraLib, an open source GIS library. According
to data available in Google Scholar, his h-index is
15, his g-index is 27, and my number of citations
is 1123, as March 2007. Based on this data, he is
currently the 4th most cited researcher at INPE.
Gilberto is the principal investigator on the area
of Spatial Databases and Spatial Environmental Models
in the GEOMA research network for Environmental Modelling
of Amazonia. He is responsible for setting up data
policies for CBERS images in Brazil and abroad, and
for creating INPE’s Remote Sensing Data Center,
which has put 30 years of imagery on-line. He was
also responsible for setting up a system for real-time
detection of deforestation in Amazonia and for making
PRODES deforestation maps available on the Internet.
He is a professor in INPE’s
graduate programs in Remote Sensing and Computer Science,
where he has advised 19 Master and 4 PhD students,
and is advising 14 PhD and 3 Master students. He was
a keynote speaker in the “Geographical Information
Science 2006”, the most prestigous conference
in his area of research, held in Munster, Germany.
Gilberto also was the main responsible
for specifying the first supercomputer installed at
INPE’s Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate
Studies (CPTEC). He is the main organizer of the Brazilian
Symposiums of Geoinformatics, held yearly since 1999.
He is a consultant of Brazilian funding agencies and
sat on the national committee for evaluation of graduate
programs for the Multidisciplinary area from 2001
to 2004.
He is a member of the editorial
board of the Journal of Earth Science Informatics
and of the program committee of the most prestigious
conferences of his area of research, including: Conference
on Geographical Information Science (GIScience), Conference
on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), Spatial and
Temporal Database Symposium and International GeoSemantics
Conference.
