SIGCIDADES PROJECT: GIS APPLIED TO MUNICIPAL PLANNING
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Francisco, C.N.; 2Novas, M.F.; 3Carriello, F.; 4Costa, A.P.A.; 5Monteiro, D.C.S.; 6Gonçalves, J.T.; 7Ferreira, L.C.
1UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: crisnf@vm.uff.br
2UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: fanovas@hotmail.com
3UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: felix-carriello@vm.uff.br
4UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: andrepac@gmail.com
5UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: deboracrissouza@gmail.com
6UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: julianagoncalves@id.uff.br
7UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE Email: leticiacmf@id.uff.br
Abstract
The Ministry of Education and Ministry of Cities, through the National Program for Capacity Building of Cities, has entrusted brazilian universities to strengthen the technical and institutional capacity of municipalities in planning, urban services and land management. SIGCidades, a project developed by the Universidade Federal Fluminense, aims to train civil employees of the municipalities of Rio de Janeiro State to use and apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in land use and land management. Since 2008, SIGCidades Project has conducted twenty classroom courses and two seminars, which were assisted by 400 civil employees. Initially, the activities focused on introductory courses in GIS; later, the courses were dedicated to Multipurpose Territorial Cadastre and nowadays the course focuses on mapping and management of Protected Areas according to environmental laws. Courses are taught in TerraView, a GIS developed by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE–Brazil), based on TerraLib. Terra View allows displaying geographic data, with querying and analysis, and manipulation of vector and raster data, which is stored in a relational or geo-relational Data Base Management System - DBMS. This work shows the experience of SIGCidades Project in training civil employees from Rio de Janeiro municipalities in GIS to improve land planning. One of the barriers in incorporating new technologies stems from the difficulty in identifying applications in the execution of daily tasks. Thus, rather than "how to push buttons", it is necessary to show possibilities of GIS applications on the work´s daily routine for the appropriation of technology, allowing the civil servant to decide when, how and for what purpose, GIS will be applied. Based on these, training activities were formulated with emphasis on the application of GIS functionalities in municipal land use planning through the development of activities related to routine work practices, such as vectorization of cadastral databases, geocoding of aerial photos, zoning and mapping protected areas, land cover classification using multispectral images, survey coordinated by global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and querying from census tract and overlaying georeferenced data to study areas. At the end of each course, questionnaires were applied to evaluate three items: 1) TerraView applicability; 2) scope, content and structure of SIGCidades Project and; 3) the educational material produced. Ranging on a scale from 0 to 3 - (zero – bad evaluated and three – good evaluated) - TerraView keeps an average of 2.0 in relation to applicability on municipal demands, scope and ease of operation, while SIGCidades Project maintains an average of 2.4 to scope, structure and content of the course and finally, the educational material, the corresponding evaluation is equal to 3: "Met expectations completely."
Keywords
Geographic Information System; education; Geoprocessing