Source: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Protected Areas Monitoring Program and Geoprocessing Laboratory

Scale: 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000

Date: daily update

Description:

Daily monitoring of the Federal Official Gazette and the Official Gazettes of the states of Legal Amazonia (with the exception of Amapá, which did not provide internet access to its Official Gazette and the daily monitoring began in December 2016) by the Protected Areas Monitoring Program allows the team to monitor newly created and/or recognized protected areas (PAs) and alterations made to the boundaries of existing areas.

Based on the descriptive memorandum contained in the decrees (CU) and ministerial directives (IL) creating and recognizing the areas, which include technical information describing the boundaries of the PAs using geographic coordinates and administrative borders, the team plots these boundaries using a cartographic base of 1:250,000 in the case of CUs and ILs in Amazonia, and 1:1,000,000 for the remainder of the country.

The bases used are SIVAM 1:250,000 for Amazonia and ISA’s base of 1:1,000,000 for the rest of Brazil. Daily monitoring of official publications also allows the team to keep track of administrative acts related to conservation units, such as approval of administrative instruments (management plans, administration plans, public use plans and so on), investigations, the creation, proposal and approval of the regulations of the administrative councils, actions relating to regularization of land ownership, such as compulsory purchases, compensations for Legal Reserves and the Grant for Real Right of Use (CDRU), among others.

Given that official bulletins are made available on the internet at different moments in time and do not always include previous editions, allowing the corresponding information to be validated and complemented, a consultation was undertaken with the relevant administrative bodies (OEMAS and ICMBio) in August 2010, incorporating further information.

Source: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Protected Areas Monitoring Program and Geoprocessing Laboratory

Scale: 1:250,000 and 1:1,000,000

Date: daily update

Description:

Daily monitoring of the Federal Official Gazette and the Official Gazettes of the states of Legal Amazonia (with the exception of Amapá, which did not provide internet access to its Official Gazette and the daily monitoring began in December 2016) by the Protected Areas Monitoring Program allows the team to monitor newly created and/or recognized protected areas (PAs) and alterations made to the boundaries of existing areas.

Based on the descriptive memorandum contained in the decrees (CU) and ministerial directives (IL) creating and recognizing the areas, which include technical information describing the boundaries of the PAs using geographic coordinates and administrative borders, the team plots these boundaries using a cartographic base of 1:250,000 in the case of CUs and ILs in Amazonia, and 1:1,000,000 for the remainder of the country.

The bases used are SIVAM 1:250,000 for Amazonia and ISA’s base of 1:1,000,000 for the rest of Brazil. Daily monitoring of official publications also allows the team to keep track of administrative acts related to conservation units, such as approval of administrative instruments (management plans, administration plans, public use plans and so on), investigations, the creation, proposal and approval of the regulations of the administrative councils, actions relating to regularization of land ownership, such as compulsory purchases, compensations for Legal Reserves and the Grant for Real Right of Use (CDRU), among others.

Given that official bulletins are made available on the internet at different moments in time and do not always include previous editions, allowing the corresponding information to be validated and complemented, a consultation was undertaken with the relevant administrative bodies (OEMAS and ICMBio) in August 2010, incorporating further information.

Source: Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), linked to the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management

Scale: 1:5,000,000

Date: September 2010

Description: Clusters: Owing to the large number of different kinds of contact between phytophysionomies, all have been grouped into a single class denominated ‘contacts’ where displayed on the web page maps.

Source: National Water Agency (ANA), linked to the Ministry of the Environment (MMA)

Scale: 1:1,000,000

Date:

Description: September 2010

Source: PRODES (Satellite Monitoring of Brazilian Amazonian Rainforest Project) at the National Institute of Spatial Research (INPE), linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT)

Scale: Thematic image classified in accordance with the key used by the PRODES Digital Project in the base representation (60m x 60m resolution (*) expressed in decimal degrees). This data was elaborated by combining all the classified individual scenes that make up the region of Amazonia in a single thematic map.

Date: October 2014, using data compiled since 1997

Description:

Source: National Institute of Spatial Research (INPE), linked to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI)

Scale:

Date: Daily update, the fires recorded the previous day always being shown

Description:

Coverage area of spot: A heat spot indicates the existence of fire in a single picture element (pixel), which varies from 1 km x 1 km to 5 km x 4 km. This pixel may contain one or more distinct heat spots, although only one spot is indicated. If the fire is extensive, it will be seen in some of the adjacent pixels: in other words, various outbreaks are associated with a single large fires. Satellite and channels available: using all the satellites with optical sensors operating in thermal spectral range – 4um average – whose signal can be received by INPE.

At the moment (July 2007) AVHRR data is processed from the polar orbit satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19, along with MODIS images from the polar orbit satellites NASA TERRA and AQUA, and images from the geostationary satellites GOES-12 and MSG-2.

Each polar orbit satellite produces at least one set of images per day, while the geostationary satellites can generate several images per hour, meaning that INPE processes a total of more than 100 images per day specifically to detect heat spots. Data is received at the Cachoeira Paulista station in São Paulo and the Cuiabá station in Mato Grosso.

Source: Department of Mineral Production (DNPM), linked to Ministry of Mines and Energy

Scale:

Date: 04/01/2016

Description:

Clusters Phase

1. Interest in research: request for research authorization
2. Under research or availability: research authorization; availability
3. Authorization for the extraction: extraction request; prospecting request; licensing request; extraction registration request
4. 4. Under extraction: extraction concession; prospecting; licensing; extraction registration

Source: Agency of Electrical Energy (ANEEL), linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME)

Scale: n/a

Date: 02/02/2016

Description: Grouped by type (PCH – Small Hydroelectric Plant, UHE – Hydroelectric Plant, UTE – Thermoelectric Plant) and by phase (operation, construction, concession and planning)

Source: Database of the National Cave Investigation and Conservation Centre (CECAV) of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), linked to the Ministry of the Environment (MMA)

Scale:

Date: 31/12/2015

Description:

In 2004, CECAV created its database on the locations of Brazil’s caves, which receives a permanent inflow of information from other databases, speleological studies, bibliographic material and especially fieldwork conducted by its technicians and environmental analysts.

The data does not represent all the caves existing in Brazil. It includes only the small portion of caves already explored by individuals, groups or institutions, the results of which have been published in various mediums of communication, and systemized, georeferenced and analyzed by CECAV. Since 2005, CECAV has provided online access to part of this database, including the data either validated by its technical team or showing basic levels of reliability, obtained from trustworthy sources, cited by more than one sources or whose geospatialization matches the descriptions accompanying the data.

Currently the CECAV database contains around 17,000 records, relating to more than 7,000 caverns. However we know that this data does not reflect the true extent of cave systems in Brazil. Hence CECAV is conducting an inventory of Brazil’s natural subterranean caves.
Geospatialized caves based on the integration of data coming from: field surveys conducted by the CECAV technical team; studies and research submitted to CECAV/Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation; specialized bibliography; CNC – Brazilian National Cave Register, Brazilian Speleology Society SBE; CODEX – National Cave Register, REDESPELEO BRASIL. (Source: CECAV/ICMBio, September 2010)

Source: Ramsar Sites Information Service (RSIS)

Scale:

Date: May 2010

Description: