CONCAR

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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
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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

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US Department of Labor 2007 Survey
The three 21st century mega-technologies and
most important emerging and evolving fields
Geotechnology
Biotechnology
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?

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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.
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NSDI Components
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Why NSDI?
Access and data sharing, Interoperability, Local
management, Portability. Build once, use many
times
Thematic data
Reference data
Security
Settlement
Demography
Transportation
Flooding areas
Hidrography
Logistic
Boundaries
Economy
Geodesic control
Pedology
Altimetry/elevation
Natural resources
Imaging
Environment
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Geospatial information layers
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SDI Portugal
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SDI Spain
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SDI Europe
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SDI Canada
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SDI Colombia
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SDI Argentina
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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

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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)?
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CONCAR
EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
SPECIALIZED COMMITTEES
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
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• SIRGAS is a continental 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 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)

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• 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

CONCAR Actions towards NSDI Construction 2/2

• Change of CONCAR membership (representatives from
  state governments, ministries and others). August
  1st 2008 Decree.

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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

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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 CONCARs 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

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IBGE actions for building NSDI

• IBGE is preparing the geospatial data to
  contribute to NSDI
• Update and converting to NCD of continuous
  digital 11,000,000 and 1250,000 scales
  geospatial data being contracted for the entire
  country (up to 18 months work)?
• Update and conversion to NCD of larger scale maps
  (1100,000, 150,000, 125,000), 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 non-commercial 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
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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

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ALOS Images
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ALOS Images
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ALOS Images
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ALOS - Advanced Land Observing Satellite
Launched 24/Jan/2006 1033 a.m.(JST)
Lifetime 3 (nominal) to 10 years
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)
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Committee on the National Cartographic Database
(NCD) Structure
Technical Specifications for the vector
geospatial data structure v2.0 (ET-EDGV
v2.0) CONCAR Resolution 001/2007 http//www.conc
ar.ibge.gov.br/
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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

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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_at_ibge.gov.br
• www.concar.ibge.gov.br