The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), through its Directorate of Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Biodiversity (DIBIO), just released to the public outside the GIS portal that brings together products like the Brazilian Biodiversity Atlas , web tool in geoprocessing system (i3geo) containing information about the species of fauna existing in 312 Federal Conservation Units managed by the municipality.
The Atlas aims to present a customized product result of an initial demand of various coordinations of the Institute, who decided to present your spatial data in a more organized and intuitive focusing on disseminating information to society. In the case of the Brazilian Biodiversity Atlas, designed and implemented by DIBIO the Coordination Analysis and Forecast Risk to Biodiversity ICMBio, the user can check the endangered species in each of the 312 federal conservation units. Among the search options are: by common name or scientific name of the species and by the UC.
The information gathered in the portal enables also the dissemination of information both externally and internally, focusing on the technical ICMBio which is in protected areas around the country Technicians will more easily organized and spatial data via standardized portal. "These technologies enable the democratization of spatial information to society and dissemination of the work done by ICMBio" stresses the coordinator for Analysis and Prediction of Risk to Biodiversity ICMBio, Gabriela Leonhardt.
Along with the Atlas is being made available also a geographic database, assembled by means of an interactive map with various reference for spatial data visualization, processing and download. "We are also geographic metadata portal, which are being registered in the metadata (that gather geographical data) produced internally by the Institute", says Ana Gabriela Ortiz, GIS specialist STI / ICMBio.
Interactive Map
The Interactive Map has a diversity of spatial data, such as cartographic base of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and other reference data from various federal agencies such as the National Water Agency (ANA), the National Agency of Electric Energy ( ANEEL), the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). Other data comes from the Ministry of Environment and own ICMBio - Federal Conservation Units, caves and other administrative units and decentralized units of the Institute.
Developed from public software i3Geo the Interactive Map has several tools for manipulating spatial information on the Internet, focusing on federal conservation units. The map has search tools and filters for conservation unit, groups, categories, units of the federation and biomes in which they are distributed.
Portal Metadata
The Portal was developed Spatial Metadata from Geonetwork free software and aims to present the metadata of spatial data provided by ICMBio. Through the portal where you can search the data produced by the Institute and what they represent, how this data was acquired and processed, as well as see information about their availability to users. Metadata registered follow international standards. Still produce user manuals for free software geoprocessing, and a plugin to integrate the data contained in the Interactive Map with free software GIS gvSIG, a way to further facilitate access to spatial data analysts Environmental.
Work began in 2011, when the team of GIS Coordination General Management for Conservation, along with the Coordination of Information Technology (CTI) ICMBio started to define the architecture of systems, the standards to be used and the construction of geographic database.
"From these definitions it was possible to build products that are now available to users who are both servants and employees of the Institute, as external users (professionals, researchers, students and society at large)," notes Ana Gabriela Ortiz, expert geoprocessing CTI / ICMBio.
Future
The next step is to organize the legacy spatial data of the Institute. "We hope one day that all of the information ICMBio are georeferenced, accessible, standardized and organized. This shall inure to the quality of the work and consequently improving the conservation of protected areas, "explains Ana Gabriela.
This year's team geoprocessing CTI / ICMBio will be focused on solving some of the frequent demands of analysts that use spatial information, especially with regard to access to satellite images and also building ways to automate processes spatial analysis.