From this amount, 344 (367) trainees were from 
Southeast and South regions; 250 (25%) were from 
Sào Paulo State, the richest and most developed 
State in Brazil. 152 (16%) trainees were from North 
region; 142 (15%) were from Northeast region; 126 
(13%) were from Central-West region; 99 (10%) were 
from South region; there is no identification about 
the origin of 15 trainees (1%). 
Once again the Southeast is the most 
representative, specially in 1988, 1989 and 1990, 
when 557 of the trainees were from this region. It 
has to be pointed out that in 1988 and 1989 the 
training courses were concentrated only in the 
South region, In 1988 the South region represented 
only 47 of the trainees, and in 1989 17% of the 
them were from the South region, 
In 1986 and 
were the Northeast 
1987 the most representative regions 
(452) and North (38%) ones, 
because the training courses were concentrated in 
these two regions. But the Southeast region 
represented 247 of the trainees in 1986 and 135 in 
1987. 
In 1990, 48 (26%) out of the 185 trainees trained 
by INPE were from Central-West region, because INPE 
held a very important training course in this 
region, But in this year 96 (52%) trainees trained 
by INPE were from Southeast region. 
It is interesting to point out that it is 
irrelevant if the training courses are held in INPE 
headquarters or not, for the Southeast region has 
always a very high representativeness in the 
courses, 
These trainees were basically trained in four main 
remote sensing application areas, namely: 
- natural resources - 177 (182); 
agrarian surveys - 136 (142); 
land use - 134 (142); 
- water resources -104 (112); 
The training courses about natural resources 
usually embody the following application areas: 
land use, vegetation, agriculture, geology, 
geomorphology, etc. 
INPE has held training courses in many application 
areas, as namely: cartography, environmental 
analysis, coastal zone, digital image processing, 
GIS, soil, SAR, urban studies, etc. 
4, CONCLUSION 
In this study it was possible to concluded that: 
- It is evident that the majority of Brazilian 
Remote Sensing Community is concentrated in the 
Southeast and South regions.There is a lack of 
remote sensing users in the North and  Central-west 
regions, that could benefit most from indigenous 
remote sensing capability, as these are the least 
developed regions in the country.In spite of INPE 
efforts to transfer technology to these regions, it 
gets stuck with the lack of funds and 
infrastructure, 
— The Southeast region is the richest and most 
developed region in Brazil, that is the reason why 
the majority of remote sensing users are 
concentrated there. The remote sensing technology 
is very useful for the country development, but 
this technology is very expensive and it is 
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necessary to have a very good infrastructure to 
develop the studies, and the only region that could 
support this is the Southeast region. 
- Besides this, there is a lack of universities in 
the North and Central-West regions. 70% of 
Brazilian universities are concentrated in the 
Southeast and South regions, and the best Brazilian 
universities are located in Sao Paulo and Rio de 
Janeiro States (Southeast region) and, as we know, 
the universities are the most important 
institutions for technology transfer programs. 
- INPE, as the most important remote sensing 
institution in Brazil, has to develop a more 
detailed study about the remote sensing community 
in order to plan and develop a right transfer 
technology program in the future. This program has 
to be shared with the institutions from different 
Brazilian regions to consider the regional 
necessities and to avoid the concentration of 
experts in the most developed regions and the lack 
of experts in the least developed ones, that need 
remote sensing technology for their development.