Resources available for students in the Environmental Systems Analysis and Modeling program include:

The physical, computational and administrative infrastructure is constantly being updated. With the appeal from the 2018 symposium registration, mainly due to the effective participation of students in the organization, it allowed raising funds for the acquisition of infrastructure that includes a 55-inch TV/monitor for projection and rehearsals of presentations and a living space in the students’ room. With resources financed through projects of the Remote Sensing Center (CSR) in 2020, a videoconference room was equipped with the latest technology for presentations, including smart TV, touchscreen digital board. The physical, computational and administrative infrastructure, in addition to these common spaces for the exclusive use of PPG-AMSA professors and students, the program has 10 associated laboratories, whose infrastructure is described below:

REMOTE SENSING CENTER

infrastructure that develops research and applications in Environmental Modeling with expertise in the areas of Geoprocessing, Digital Cartography and Environmental Modeling, especially the dynamics of land use, forest fire spread, biodiversity conservation. This center has computational tools for geoprocessing and environmental modeling; including the DINAMICA EGO software developed by the center. CSR now has a high-performance multi-user processing station with 32 processors, 64 megabytes of RAM and 50 terabytes of storage. CSR provides the entire community with a repository of geospatial data on its map server (https://maps.csr.ufmg.br/).

LABORATORY FOR TERRITORIAL STUDIES (EAST)
research space that offers support to several works in the areas of Geography, spatial analysis, socioeconomic studies. Among the topics covered, it is important to highlight the constant presence of Historical Cartography and areas of knowledge associated with the Regional Analysis, Population and Space, Urban Network and Geopolitics. The laboratory has microdata of several public researches (Demographic Census, National Research by Household Sample, Annual Relationship of Social Information), in addition to cartographic bases acquired by IBGE and its own bases resulting from recent research. Currently, EAST has seven microcomputers and two laptops, laser and inkjet printer, scanner, projector and educational support equipment. The most used execution programs can mention: SPSS, ArcGIS, MapInfo, MicroStation, Adobe Photoshop, among others.

GEOMORPHOLOGY LAB

The objective of the Geomorphology Laboratory is to develop research related to soils and geomorphology. Analysis of the soil physical part such as texture, pH, electrical conductivity, particle density, and water quality analysis are carried out. Teaching, research and extension activities for undergraduate and graduate students are carried out. Together with the Soils and Environment Laboratory, the Geomorphology Laboratory performs analysis of soils and water of rural properties directly affected by the disaster of the collapse of the Fundão dam in the municipality of Mariana along the Rio Doce river.

SOILS AND THE ENVIRONMENT LAB

infrastructure that performs analyses related to soil and water structure in the soil, including density analysis, aggregate stability, soil water retention curve, macroporosity, microporosity and liquidity limit and soil micromorphology. The laboratory develops projects in partnership with EPAMIG (the Agricultural Research Company of Minas Gerais), EMBRAPA SOLOS, and EMATER-MG (Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of the State of Minas Gerais.

TOPOGRAPHY LAB

Vital infrastructure to support educational activities that has topography and geodesy equipment that also supports research and extension activities. The laboratory has survey instruments such as total stations, levels, GNSS receivers, drone/VANT and support material such as radio transmitters. The Topography Lab also includes computers and software for processing survey data, including aerophotogrametric processing and three-dimensional modeling of drone images.

CARTOGRAPHIC PRACTICES AND GEOPROCESSING LAB

infrastructure that has two rooms: one with priority use for research, and another with priority use for teaching. The classroom has 36 networked computers and software for students and multimedia classroom resources. The research room has 15 networked computers and software for students, professors and researchers in general. Most of the practices of PPG-AMSA subjects are given in this laboratory, whose maintenance has been financed by research project resources and extension of PPG-AMSA professors. The available and on-going software are: ArcGIS, QGIS, ENVI, DINAMICA EGO, SPRING, R, GPS TrackMaker; MicroStation, IDRISI.

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING (TREM)

Its computing infrastructure has two workstations with high processing capacity installed on site and 4 laptops for remote access for scholarship students, as well as a printer and tables/benches to serve 5 students. Since its creation 3 years ago, TREM has served research projects (GIZ 2017, TCU 2018 and ANAC 2020) and extension (VLI 2017, Environment/UFLA 2019) with constant fundraising and maintenance of equipment and scholarships, with emphasis for the modeling methodology of economic, technical and environmental feasibility of transport corridors.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT LAB (LAGESA)
Created in 2012, LAGESA has a team of 10 researchers from different academic paths that develop studies in the area of environmental management. In line with its mission to promote greater participation of science in the context of decisions on environmental policies in Brazil, the laboratory is currently carrying out recognized studies in the public sphere and cultivating alliances with entities such as the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change and the Forest Code Observatory. LAGESA has been a strong support for the development of research and international visibility of the PPG-AMSA, as a result of the program’s interaction, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.

PATTERN RECOGNITION AND EARTH OBSERVATION LABORATORY (PATREO)
it integrates academic research in the area of computer vision of professors and doctoral, master’s and scientific initiation students. Its infrastructure currently has: storage and backup servers (88 TB of capacity); processing servers with virtualization on multiple processors (152 colors); high RAM memory capacity (1.14TB); and heavy-duty servers (12 GPUs — Geforce GTX Titan X). PATREO develops research on machine learning, image processing and computer vision topics with a focus mainly on applications for monitoring the terrestrial surface, which requires processing images for remote sensing.

LAB IN ANALYSIS AND MODELING APPLIED TO HEALTH
infrastructure created in 2020, even during the pandemic, through resources from a project approved in the CAPES Notice/EPIDEMIAS-COVID 19. The project financed the creation of a laboratory and acquisition of material (82 thousand Reais) which includes a server (Processing station worth 22 thousand Reais and five computers worth 66 thousand Reais) in addition to all the permanent equipment as shown in the Figure 2 attached (Supplementary Material document).

PPG-AMSA student, as a student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, has access to the university information technology resources, which includes electronic signatures, electronic addresses and remote accesses to portable computers and cellular devices. In addition to the applications available at the various laboratories already presented, PPG-AMSA students also have access to the LCC-CENAPAD, which is a center for the provision of services and development of information technology projects for research and teaching (https://www.lcc.ufmg.br/index.php/softwares-licenciados). Among the frequently requested applications, SPSS and MATLAB stand out.

Students and teachers from the PPG-AMSA have access to information technology and learning resources from the CAED (Distance Education Support Center) at UFMG, resources that allow, for example, access to videoconference rooms https://virtual.ufmg.br /caed/). Similarly, the computational models worked on in the PPG-AMSA research will be able to access a supercomputer with 848 processors and a 40 terabyte hard disk, installed at the Regional Center of the National High Performance Processing System (Sinapad) of the Ministry of Science and Technology , linked to the Scientific Computing Laboratory (LCC) of ICEx. However, its use is restricted and scheduled, and must meet specific criteria.

At the PPG-AMSA, fieldwork activities and technical visits essential to the development of research of interest to its faculty/students rely on the logistical support of automotive vehicles that are part of the Geosciences Institute’s collection (IGC/UFMG). These vehicles are also systematically used in the execution of fieldwork developed in the context of subjects that make up the program’s curricular structure, at the master’s and doctoral levels.

ching activities and to aid in the development of research and continued education projects.