Information layer | Attributes | Application | Source | Temporal reference | Spatial range | Scale of origin | Shape |
Areas subject to flooding | Location and area | Identification of the lands which may be flooded and which are more vulnerable to modifications in land use and climate change | IBGE/ Embrapa/ Retis-UFRJ | - | South America | - | Line/Polygon |
Hydrographic Basins-Otto Pfafstetter | Location, area and name of the basins and sub-basins | Hierarchization and delimitation of the Tocantins-Araguaia basins | ANA | 2007 | South America | 1:1.000.000 | Polygon |
Deforestation (anthropism) | Location, degrated/ regenerated area, rate of deforestation and period of deforestation (presents the temporal evolution of vegetation loss on the periods mentioned on the temporal reference) | Diagnosis and monitoring of anthropic action on the basins and identification of the areas which are more affected by changes in land use and land cover. It may be integrated with other factors in order to identify different environmental vulnerabilities in the areas of interest. | Prodes-Inpe | 2000-2008 | Brazil | IBGE: 1:2,500,000/TRFIC-MSU: Spatial resolutions of 28 m and 57 m/ Prodes-Inpe: Spatial Resolution between 20 and 30 m (resampling for 200 m and 400 m) | Polygon/Tabular |
Hydrologic Network | Detailed and Generalized (Main Water Bodies) | Diagnosing and mapping hydric resources | IBGE/Retis-UFRJ/ANA/Aneel | 2000-2004 | Brazil and South America | 1:1,000,000/ 1:5,000,000 | Line/Polygon/Tabular (only for the main water bodies) |
Indigenous Land | Area and location | Conflicts related to land use | IBGE/Funai/ Retis-UFRJ | - | South America | - | Dots/Polygon/Tabular |
Protected Areas (Conservation Units) | Year of creation, decree, category of use | Diagnosing and mapping land use, as well as conflicts related to it | IBGE-MMA -IBAMA/States/ Municipalities | 2003 | Brazil-States and Municipalities | 1:1,000,000 | Polygon/Tabular |
Water Supply | Water amount per capita | Mapping the water supply conditions | Census 2000 | Decennial | Municipalities -Brazil | 1:1,000,000 | Tabular data |