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“Geostatistics” presents environmental heritage of the Legal Amazon June 01, 2011

Vegetation coverage usually features as a major concern when it comes to the topic Legal Amazon.... Vegetation coverage usually features as...

Roraima gains digital cartographic database May 16, 2011

The Continuous Cartographic Database of Roraima, in digital environment, will be available from Monday, May 16... The Continuous Cartographic...

IBGE inaugurates new stations for satellite positioning April 05, 2011

IBGE, in partnership with the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA)... IBGE, in partnership with the National Institute...

New edition of National Atlas reveals Brazilian territory changes December 14, 2010

IBGE releases today the Milton Santos National Atlas of Brazil, which updates the geographical information about the Brazilian territory. The...

IBGE releases Image Map of the Federal District December 10, 2010

The Image Map of the Federal District, which IBGE makes available today at ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br, will enable users to access the main geographic...

Thematic maps reveal the diversity of the Amazon state December 09, 2010

IBGE releases today (09) a collection of thematic maps approaching Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Amazon Soils... IBGE releases today...

IBGE hosts the meeting of the Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas December 01, 2010

By next Friday, December 3, the directors of geosciences institutes from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico will have met in IBGE to...

IBGE releases map and report on the land use in Rio Grande do Sul August 12, 2010

This richly illustrated publication presents the mapping and the analysis of the characteristics and of the processes of land use in the state of...

IBGE inaugurates 11 highly-precise location stations obtained from GPS data June 29, 2010

IBGE, in partnership with the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) has inaugurated 11 new stations of the Brazilian Network...

Internet portal will integrate geospatial information of the country April 08, 2010

The design of a new highway, the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, the installation of an industrial complex. Decisions on resource...

IBGE releases new edition of the Technical Manual of Geomorphology March 02, 2010

IBGE releases today the second edition of the Technical Manual of Geomorphology. The Manual, used by the Institute as a reference to map Brazilian...

IBGE releases first digital database of Legal Amazon relief July 10, 2009

The Legal Amazon is not a predominantly plain area. The plain Amazon corresponds to only 7% of the about 5 million square kilometers which form...

IBGE map shows the location of 238 endangered fishes and aquatic invertebrates July 10, 2009

As the last step to the project of producing maps showing the endangered Brazilian fauna, IBGE releases one that shows, for the first time in the...

IBGE joins wireless Internet access and GPS and launches free positioning and navigation service May 06, 2009

Today, May 6, IBGE releases a free service which, for the first time, will allow real-time access to better quality coordinates (latitude, longitude...

IBGE releases free service for GPS users April 02, 2009

IBGE - The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics makes available on its web site (www.ibge.gov.br) the PPP (Positioning by Precise...

IBGE shows new dynamics of Brazilian urban network October 10, 2008

There are, in Brazil, twelve big influence networks which connect even municipalities located in different states. The network centered in São...

IBGE organizes seminar on Brazilian territorial division July 01, 2008

The objective is to elaborate the territorial base which will guide the 2010 Demographic Census, with the participation of state and municipal institutions...

IBGE makes available a database for the Legal Amazon vegetation June 02, 2008

The product presents updated alphanumerical (text mode) and graphic information, suitable for the scale 1:250,000 (in which 1 cm of the map corresponds...

IBGE installs equipment to measure sea level in Fortaleza April 16, 2008

IBGE will finish, next April 19th, the installation of the fifth station of the Permanent Tide Gauge Network for Geodetics (RMPG) at the Port...

IBGE launches web page for the distribution of images from Japanese satellite ALOS October 22, 2007

IBGE has launched today, on October 22, a web site for the exclusive distribution of images from the Japanese satellite Advanced Land Observing Satellite...

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