Brazilian Universities and the
Beginning of the Brazilian Spatial
Data Infrastructure
Ivanildo Barbosa
[email protected]
Context
Brazilian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE);
Education and Training;
Research
PUC-MG
UFMG
UFV
UERJ
UFPR
IME
INPE
UNESP
Expectations
Special Thanks
Brazilian National Spatial Data
Infrastructure (INDE)
Federal Decree nº 6666, at November 28th of 2008:
Enhancement of the production and the use of
spatial data at all over the country;
Obligation for Federal Executive entities;
Workgroups
to
Standardization
–
Commission of Cartography (CONCAR);
National
Demands actions in Education, Training and
Research (WARNEST, 2005) - activities directly
related to universities.
Education and Training
Evolution on methodologies to create maps
demands on studies to adapt contents taught in
courses related to geospatial data production;
Efforts to integrate geospatial data created in
finished projects to INDE;
New or ongoing projects, dissertations and thesis
should be oriented to create products ready to
interact to INDE;
Provide training for federal entities to:
- Approach the
specifications);
new
standards
(rules
and
- create new geospatial datasets (according to the
specifications);
- gather and store existing data;
- Support
the
computational
infrastructure
(hardware, databases, web services, etc);
Research
Search for papers;
Most of papers found describe basic concepts,
computational architecture to support SDI and
specifics demands to integrate different data
sources;
Case studies of local SDI;
Catholic University of Minas Gerais
(PUC – Minas)
Jobs developed since 2005;
“Proposição de Infra-Estrutura de Dados
Espaciais (SDI) Local, Baseada em Arquitetura
Orientada por Serviços (SOA)” - 2008.
“Evaluation of OGC Web Services for Local
Spatial Data Infastructures and for the
Development of Clients for Geographic
Information Systems” - (2007).
Federal University of Minas Gerais
(UFMG)
There's a recent (2009) ongoing project oriented to
gazetteers, with no published results.
Federal University in Viçosa (UFV)
Approaching is developed over GIS and Spatial
Databases research lines;
“Spatial Data Infastructures: reuse beyond the
metadata” - 2008.
Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ)
Dissertations in Geomatics Master Course
“Restituição fotogramétrica segundo o padrão da
estruturação de dados Geoespaciais Vetoriais no
Ambiente E-FOTO” - 2009;
“Uso de Web Services e Software Livre na
Disseminação de Informações Georreferenciadas
sobre produtos da Floresta Amazônica” - 2009.
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)
Ongoing doctoral thesis approaching international
standards adaptation to Brazilian SDI.
Related paper published:
“Mapeamento Sistemático: a Base para as InfraEstruturas Nacionais de Dados Espaciais” 2008.
Military Institute of Engineering (IME)
Participation on workgroup for definition of geospatial
metadata profile;
Inclusion of SDI as content of related disciplines.
Research project oriented to analyze the metadata
profile developed by CONCAR.
National
Institute
Researches (INPE)
for
Spatial
As university: Master and Doctoral courses in
Remote Sensing;
As producer: creation, processing and broadcasting
of products based on orbital images.
Participation in INDE as producer, focused in
possible impacts to the ongoing processes.
São Paulo State University (UNESP) –
Presidente Prudente
Ongoing projects are oriented to consult the existing
specifications
published
by
CONCAR
to
accustomed to new standards.
Some courses didn't answer to the query.
be
Expectations
Due to implement INDE, large impacts are expected
gathering and standardizing robust geospatial
datasets, produced along many years over a large
territory country like Brazil.
It’s been studied the creation of a Committee for
Qualifying and the convocation of volunteers
experts for participation at the CONCAR
established Committees activities.
Special Thanks
Diretoria de Serviço Geográfico (DSG);
(in alphabethical order)
Claudia Robbi Sluter (UFPR);
Clodoveu Davis (UFMG);
Isabel Teixeira (CONCAR);
Jorge Luís Nunes e Silva Brito (UERJ);
Júlio Dalge (INPE);
Jugurta Lisboa Filho (UFV);
Mauricio Galo (UNESP);