Using GIS for Environmental Analysis

The Instituto Ambiente em Foco (IAF), a socio-environmental nonprofit organization (NGO) founded in 2007, is organizing the Third Workshop on Using GIS for Environmental Analysis, which will be held 5th to 8th October in Piracicaba (SP), Brazil.

With the participation of about 300 people, the workshop will feature lectures and workshops, and will occur in the Engineering School of Piracicaba/FUMEP. One of the workshops (Mapping Techniques in ArcGIS) will be given for the ESRI, the official developer of this software. The instructor will be the environmental engineer Bernard Barbarisi Freire, an analyst at the company and Master of Remote Sensing at INPE.

The event will be attended by the Secretary of State for the Environment of São Paulo - Mr. Bruno Covas, for the opening exercises. The Institute will also bring to the event Edwin Keizer - Greenpeace, an agronomist at the University WUR (Wageningen University Research Centre) in the Netherlands. The speaker develops work in the Amazon since 1993 and is coordinator of the Geoprocessing Laboratory (Geolab) in the Amazon campaign. In the event website is available an interview with the speaker.

This third edition of the event has partnerships with major NGO's, institutions, companies and state and federal environmental agencies. The scholarship can be sent until 20th September.

For registration and details visit: www.sig2011.institutoaf.org.br