Brazil is a forest-rich country with the world’s largest tropical forest, the Amazon region, covering a vast area of land. The tropical rainforests in the Amazon basin account for about one-third of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests. While the Amazon region in particular is home to vast forests, deforestation per year has been on the rise since 2013. The reasons for the recent increase in deforestation have not been identified, but according to information from the Brazilian National Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and other sources, the detection of illegal logging using optical satellite imagery is difficult during the rainy season when clouds cover the area, illegal logging detection methods have become more sophisticated, the federal administration has changed its policy to prioritize development, and the government is now using the Internet to detect illegal logging. The federal administration’s policy has shifted to prioritize development.
This cooperation will target the Brazilian legal Amazon region (especially the Amazon biome area), which is home to the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and will strengthen countermeasures and management capabilities related to illegal logging through the detection and prediction of deforestation using radar satellites and AI technology, and will enable conservation activities in the Amazon regional forest to The project will contribute to the improvement of forest conservation activities in the Amazon region.