The Central Bank of Brazil has opened registration for Geotec, a free online training programme on advanced technologies for monitoring rural credit operations and the Agricultural Activity Guarantee Programme (Proagro), with a focus on geotechnologies and satellite imagery. Registration is open until 2 February. An inaugural lecture is scheduled for 3 February at 14:30 and will be streamed on Teams, followed by a course running from 3 February to 29 May 2026 with a 160-hour workload including 79 hours of pedagogical activities and mentoring. The programme is delivered by researchers from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and the University of São Paulo’s Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, alongside an external consultant, and is aimed at technicians from financial institutions and credit cooperatives as well as universities, public bodies, research institutes, civil society organisations and other interested participants, with 1,700 people already registered. The curriculum covers remote sensing and geotechnologies, territorial governance and meteorology, including use of Sicor data, land-use and land-cover analysis systems (Prodes, Deter, TerraClass and MapBiomas) and Brazilian cadastral systems (CAR, Sigef and SNCI), and is part of a Central Bank partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit under the Brazil-Germany FiBraS project.
Central Bank of Brazil 2026-01-28
Central Bank of Brazil opens registration for Geotec geotechnology course on monitoring rural credit and Proagro operations
The Central Bank of Brazil has launched Geotec, a free online training programme focusing on geotechnologies and satellite imagery for monitoring rural credit operations and the Agricultural Activity Guarantee Programme (Proagro). Registration is open until 2 February, with the course running from 3 February to 29 May 2026, aimed at technicians from financial institutions, universities, and other interested parties.