- total trainees / year; 
- total training / year; 
— total training / state; 
= total trainees / state; 
- total trainees / remote sensing application 
area; 
- total trainees / profession. 
3. RESULTS 
With the information obtained through the 
questionnaires, it was possible to have the first 
profile about the Brazilian Remote Sensing 
Community. 
In 1988 the Community had the following 
characteristics: 
—- 627 of Brazilian Remote Sensing users were living 
in the Southeast region (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, 
Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo States). From this 
amount, 45% were living in Sao Paulo State,the 
richest and most developed State in Brazil where 
INPE is located. 57% were living in Rio de Janeiro, 
the second most important State in Brazil (Figure 
13. 
— 734 were living in the Southeast and South 
regions (Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do 
Sul States). These two regions represents only 30% 
of the country,but they are the richest and most 
developed regions in the country. Besides this, the 
distance between the South region and INPE 
headquarters is not very far. 
—- 8,47 of the remote sensing users were living in 
Brasilia, capital of Brazil, in the Central-West 
region, The most important public institutions that 
work on remote sensing, like the Ministry of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of Mines, the Secretary 
of Environment, etc, are located in Brasilia. 
— 5,37 were living in the North region,the least 
developed region in Brazil, that represents 50% of 
the country area. The distance between  INPE 
headquarters and this region is very far. 
The users were asked in wich country region they 
had developed studies with remote sensing data in 
the past five years. It was possible to identify 
that: 
- 297 developed studies in the Southeast 
region; 
- 197 developed studies in the South region; 
- 18% developed studies in the Northeast 
region; 
- 177% developed studies in the North region; 
- 17% developed studies in the Central-West 
region. 
As to their professional life, it was possible to 
identify that: 
—- 747 of remote sensing users were represented by: 
- geologists (20%); 
- geographers (19%); 
- agronomists (15%); 
- forest engineers (11%); 
- cartographic engineers (6%); 
- biologists ( 3%). 
- 26% of the remote sensing users were represented 
by: physicists, civil engineers, electronic 
engineers, electric engineers, architects, 
oceanographers, statisticians, navy officers, 
agriculture engineers, system analists, army 
officers, mechanic engineers, survey engineers, 
university professors, lawyers, zootechnics, 
chemist engineers, project engineers, 
veterinarians, ecologists, psychologists and 
mathematicians, 
It was a surprise that so many different kinds of 
professionals were involved with remote sensing.The 
expectancy was that just the professionals with a 
background in natural sciences were working on 
remote sensing. 
Till 1988 the remote sensing users had basically 
developed projects in the following application 
areas: 
— land use- 15%; 
-  vegetation- 137; 
- environmental analysis- 117; 
-  cartography- 97; 
- water resources- 97; 
— agriculture- 873; 
-  geology- 823 
- geomorphology- 72; 
- digital image processing- 67; 
—  pedology- 5%; 
— urban studies” 47; 
- meteorology- 22; 
- military targets- 17 
—-  oceanography- 1%; 
In this item, the fact that the users were usually 
involved with more than one application area had to 
be considered. 
The kinds of remote sensing data used by these 
professionals were: 
- aerial photography ( BxW) - 2672; 
- aerial photography ( color ) - 772; 
- aerial photogtaphy ( IR color) - 972; 
- aerial photography ( IR BxW ) - 32; 
- LANDSAT /RBV - 57; 
— LANDSAT/ MSS - 2072; 
- LANDSAT/ TM  - 13%; 
- SPOT - 82; 
- GOES - 31; 
— NOAA - 32; 
—  RADAR/AM - 173 
In this item, it had also to be considered that the 
majority of the users used more than one kind of 
remote sensing data. 
In 1988, 837 of the remote sensing users got their 
graduation between 1968 and 1987; 15Z, between 1948 
and 1967; and just 177 were attending undergraduate 
courses, 
From this amount, 65% got their graduation after 
1973, when INPE started tracking the  LANDSAT 
satellite, 
40% had a master degree; 197 had a doctor degree; 
1Z had a specialization degree; and 0,3% were 
substitute professors. 
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