The National Atlas of Brazil is the first publication of IBGE in DVD ROM format. It contains 420 maps, 1,030 photographs, 532 texts and 30 videos in 1,410 layers of data, totaling three gigabytes. In the same occasion it will be published the second edition of the Basic Vocabulary of Natural Resources and Environment.

The IBGE is publishing the National Digital Atlas of Brazil, the newest tool of visualization, of reference, and analysis of its statistics and maps. It contains three gigabytes of cartographic information – political-administrative limits, highways, rivers, municipal headquarters, preservation areas – and statistics of: the Demographic Census from 1970 to 2000; the Agricultural Census 1996; the Agricultural Municipal Production; and the Livestock Municipal Production. It is the greatest volume of data already reunited in one single publication of the IBGE, which, for the first time, uses the DVD ROM format.

The National Digital Atlas of Brazil includes data from the National Atlas (published in 2001), 2000 Demographic Census Atlas (published in 2003), Sanitation Atlas (published in 2004) and Geographic School Atlas (second edition published in 2004).

With 1,410 layers of information, the National Digital Atlas of Brazil contains 400 maps of Brazil, 20 maps of the planisphere and 1,030 illustrations – including photographs and satellite images – besides 532 texts, 100 graphs, 30 videos and a glossary with 760 technical terms. The DVD ROM contains database, which allows search through key words. All the information and maps are organized in 10 topics (Political, Environment, Demography, Urbanization, Industry and Services, Agriculture, Health, Education, Infrastructure, Insertion of Brazil in the World) and 58 sub-topics. Thematic Maps allow enter, also, into thematic tables, and some statistical information includes the time series of the Demographic Census from 1970 up to 2000.

The up-to-date DVD ROM of the National Digital Atlas of Brazil contains zoom ranging between the scales of 1:3 000 000 and 1:15 000 000, allowing the visualization of sub districts, small towns and villages. The maps of six state capitals and of the Federal District contain intra-municipal graphic information. The user can also save his own maps in JPG format archives. The National Digital Atlas of Brazil will be available in the bookstores of the IBGE, in all the capitals of the Country, on March 2005. It will also be possible to obtain the National Digital Atlas of Brazil by Internet, after March 2005, in the Virtual Shop of the IBGE (www.ibge.gov.br/lojavirtual).

Published the second edition of the Basic Vocabulary of Natural Resources and Environment

The Basic Vocabulary of Natural Resources and Environment explains several terms used in Agronomy, Astronomy, Biology, Botanic, Cartography, Climatology, Crystallography, Ecology, Forestry Engineering, Physics, Phytogeography, Geology, Geomorphology and Silviculture. Its first edition, containing around 2,500 entries and published in 2002, presented a wide spectrum of technical terms related to environment, mainly those of more common use.

This second edition results from a deep revision, where some terms were redefined and adjusted to more recent scientific concepts. Also, more than 300 new entries were included, enlarging the Basic Vocabulary of Natural Resources and Environment, which will be available in the bookstores of the IBGE in January of the next year.