Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management
Organizational and Institutional issues
for Geospatial Implementation
Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes, PhD
Directorate of Geosciences
Taller Regional Sobre Cartografía Censal
con Miras a la Ronda de Censos 2010 en Latinoamérica
Santiago, Chile, 24-27 de Noviembre, 2008
Status of Spatial Data Infrastructure
Construction in Brazil
... from institutional and policy points of view
Contents
 Introduction
 Spatial Data Infrastructure – SDI
 SDI in other countries and in South America
 National Commission of Cartography (CONCAR)
 CONCAR Strategic Planning – Mission and Vision of the Future
 CONCAR Actions Towards NSDI Construction
 Proposal of Presidential Decree
 IBGE Actions in Preparing Geospatial Data for NSDI
 Final remarks
US Department of Labor: 2007 Survey
The three 21st century mega-technologies and
most important emerging and evolving fields
Biotechnology
Geotechnology
Nanotechnology
Over 60% of all information used by the public sector
around the world can be georreferenced
Today's decision makers are aware of the importance of
geospatial information  strong demand
 how to supply them?
National Spatial Data Infrastructure - NSDI
Technological advances  redefinition of how to make
cartography  integrating data and information 
optimizing resources  attending the demands !!
Policies, laws, rules, standards, agreements, plans, programs,
projects, human, technological and financial resources,
appropriately integrated, to facilitate the production, access
and use of governmental geospatial data, on behalf of the
country's development.
NSDI Components
NSDI
POLICY
DATA
TECHNOLOGIC
- Institucional deals
- Detecting duplication of
production (GI)
- Identifying roles, data
production and
possession (GI)
- Elaborate fundamental
data sharing programe
(GI)
-Definition of similar
fundamental and thematic
data (IG)
- Certifying and
compatibilization
- Integration and Divulgation
- Protocols and interfaces
for comunication and
search
-Server networks
-Service (Geo)
STANDARDS
-Metadata
-Data exchange
LEGAL
- Legal marks
- Institutional mandate
- Legal and authoral rights
- Rules and legislation,
costs and trade
HUMAN
RESOURCES
-Capacitation
-Leveling knowledge
-Technical and
managerial
Why NSDI?
Access and data sharing, Interoperability, Local management, Portability. Build
once, use many times
Reference data
Thematic data
Security
Settlement
Transportation
Hidrography
Boundaries
Geodesic control
Altimetry/elevation
Imaging
Demography
Flooding areas
Logistic
Economy
Pedology
Natural resources
Environment
Geospatial information layers
Geodesy
Cartography
Natural
Research
Territorial
Boundaries
Geography
Statistics
SDI Portugal
SDI Spain
SDI Europe
SDI Canada
SDI Colombia
SDI Argentina
National Commission of Cartography - CONCAR
Subordinated to the Ministry of Planning, Budget
and Management
Established in 1967 !
Attributions (update by the Decree of August 01, 2008)
 Support the Minister on the supervision of the National
Cartographic System
 Coordinate the execution of the National Cartographic Policy
CONCAR Strategic Planning (2005)
Mission
To coordinate and to guide the establishment and the
implementation of the National Cartographic Policy and the
maintenance of the National Cartographic System, aiming to
organize the acquisition, production and distribution of
geospatial information for the Brazilian society
Vision of the Future
CONCAR being acknowledged by the Brazilian society and capable
of providing a National Cartographic System of excellence and able
to deliver an updated and integrated National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (NSDI)
CONCAR
SPECIALIZED COMMITTEES
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
SUBCOMISSION OF LAWS AND STANDARDS - SLN
SUBCOMISSION OF PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION FOLLOW-UP
- SPA
SUBCOMISSION OF PUBLICITY - SDI
SUBCOMISSION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AFFAIRS - SDN
SUBCOMISSION OF SPATIAL DATA - SDE
CONCAR President – Secretary of Planning and Investments of the
Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management - SPI
Executive Secretariat – Brazilian Institute of Geography and
Statistics - IBGE
 SIRGAS is a continental
CONCAR Actions
towards NSDI
Construction
1/2
 Actions restarted on October
2003
 Approval of the change in
legislation that allowed the
official adoption of the new
SIRGAS2000 Geodetic
Reference Frame on February
25, 2005 (based on
Presidential Decree nr 5.334 of
Jan 2005)
geocentric, modern, precise
reference frame, compatible with
the GNSS systems
 Development of studies towards
the standardization of cadastral
mapping, of geospatial
metadata and of structuring the
National Cartographic
Database (NCD/MND)
 Approval of the first (2005) and
second (2007) versions of
technical specification for
structuring geospatial vector data
of NCD/MND
CONCAR Actions
towards NSDI
Construction
2/2
Change of CONCAR
membership (representatives
from state governments,
ministries and others). August
1st 2008 Decree.
 Proposition of a Presidential
Decree on the establishment of
the National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (NSDI) of Brazil,
obligating Federal agencies to
share their geospatial data and
metadata
Proposal of Presidential Decree (1/2)
 To establish NSDI in Brazil
 To establish the “Geographic Information System of Brazil –
SIG Brasil” as the main node for acessing data, its metadata and
related services. IBGE is responsible for planning, managing and
operating SIG Brasil
 To ensure the compatibility with standards and specifications
approved by CONCAR
 To ensure the accordance with the Interoperability Standards of
the Electronic Government (e-PING)
 To promote the sharing, distribution and use of geospatial data
 To avoid duplication of actions and the waste of resources by
public administration organizations when obtaining geospatial data
Proposal of Presidential Decree (2/2)
 In 180 days after the Decree is published, an Action Plan for
implementing NSDI has to be prepared by CONCAR, including:
 Deadline for implementing the physical and logical
structures of the Brazilian Directory of Geospatial Data and of
SIG Brazil
 Deadline for CONCAR’s approval of standards and
specifications of the geospatial metadata (LAMP being
considered)
 Deadline for agencies and organizations of the Federal
Administration to make their geospatial metadata, stored on a
server under their responsibility, available to CONCAR
 Deadline for starting the release of geospatial metadata and
related services by SIG Brasil
 Rules for releasing metadata of new projects
 Financial resources needed for establishing NSDI
IBGE actions for building NSDI
IBGE is preparing the geospatial data to contribute to NSDI
 Update and converting to NCD of continuous digital 1:1,000,000 and
1:250,000 scales geospatial data being contracted for the entire country
(up to 18 months work)
 Update and conversion to NCD of larger scale maps (1:100,000,
1:50,000, 1:25,000), when appropriate
 At the same time, compose a catalogue of satellite imagery with resolution
between 2.5 and 100 m of the entire country
 IBGE exclusively distributes ALOS satellite images for noncommercial users in Brazil
Note: The census maps that will be prepared to the Census 2010,
with intensive use of satellite imagery,
will be a rich collection for the construction of SDI
2007 Census
Use of PDA
 Quality control at the time of survey
 Real time monitoring of the collecting
data in all municipalities
 Georreferencing of rural
establishments (farms, schools,
health centers, etc.), as PDA is
equipped by GPS
• Over 70,000 maps of census
enumeration areas converted to
SIRGAS2000
• In 2010 there will be over
280,000 census enumeration
areas
ALOS Images
ALOS Images
ALOS Images
ALOS - Advanced Land Observing Satellite
Star Tracker
PALSAR
Data transmission
antenna
Launched
24/Jan/2006
10:33 a.m.(JST)
Lifetime
3 (nominal) to
10 years
GPS Antena
Solar Array
PRISM
AVNIR-2
Flight
direction
Earth
PALSAR: Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (10 to 100 m)
PRISM: Panchromatic Remote Sensing Instruments for Stereo Mapping (2.5 m)
AVNIR-2: Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer Type 2 (10 m)
NSDI
Committee on the National
Cartographic Database
(NCD) Structure
Policies
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Geoportal
NCD
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Technical Specifications for the vector
geospatial data structure v2.0
(ET-EDGV v2.0)
Specifications
Metadata
CONCAR Resolution 001/2007
Data
http://www.concar.ibge.gov.br/
Final Remarks
• Integrating statistical data into NSDI opens new horizons, based on
the possibility of correlating this data with all other data layers, like
the ones related to natural resources and the environment
• The new web based technologies allow NSOs to produce Census
Mapping in a full digital way, integrating maps, enumeration areas
boundaries graphic and text files, and addresses file
• The current availability of low cost high resolution orbital and aerial
imagery can help updating the Census Maps
• The NSOs efforts need to comply with NSDI, which is achievable by
following the SDI National Authority Standards – many of which
should adhere to the Open Geospatial Consortium standards; by
doing this, all geospatial information generated in Census Mapping
can be made available through the NSDI
Our Mission:
To portrait Brazil with information necessary to the
knowledge of its reality and the exercise of citizenship.
www.ibge.gov.br
Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes
Directorate of Geosciences
luiz.fortes@ibge.gov.br
www.concar.ibge.gov.br