Acquisition and Reading of Digital Topographic Maps from IBGE

Authors

  • Danilo Heitor Caires Tinoco Bisneto Melo Universidade Estadual da Bahia
  • Edmilson Martinho Volpi Department of the Environment of the State of São Paulo
  • Hailton Mello da Silva Institute of the Federal University of Bahia
  • Leonardo Araújo Menezes Federal University of Bahia
  • Pablício Vieira Moura Federal University of Bahia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2447-1747.2014v23n1p191

Keywords:

Topographic Map, Sampling, Quantization.

Abstract

For decades the main way to share and store spatial data was performed by means of printed files and recorded in analog medium (paper or photo). Today, with the implementation of digital systems and the internet it has become more practical and fast, culminating in information dissemination. In Brazil, one of the agency responsible for territorial mapping is the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which has an electronic site in which offers numerous cartographic documents, such as the Topographical Maps. However, most of these materials were fabricated in analog medium, being necessary to effect the conversion to digital. This process involves the discretization of the information and it was done in monochrome mode, resulting in the separation of its content in Photolithography. The objective of this work is to demonstrate how to get this stuff on the website of the IBGE and to describe the process of converting from analog to digital and its division into Photolithography, as well the normative used in the naming of these files. With this, these files can be better harnessed and used, especially in a geographic database and a Geographic Information System.

Author Biographies

Danilo Heitor Caires Tinoco Bisneto Melo, Universidade Estadual da Bahia

Geographer, doctoral student in Geology from the Federal University of Bahia , professor at the Institute of Geosciences of the Federal University of Bahia , Rua Barão de Jeremoabo , s / n, University Campus Ondina - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil , CEP : 40170-020 .

Edmilson Martinho Volpi, Department of the Environment of the State of São Paulo

Cartographer engineer , Master in Urban Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos , environmental expert in the field of Environmental Planning Department of the Environment of the State of São Paulo

Hailton Mello da Silva, Institute of the Federal University of Bahia

Geologist, doctoral student in Geology from the Federal University of Bahia , Professor of Geosciences Institute of the Federal University of Bahia

Leonardo Araújo Menezes, Federal University of Bahia

Graduate in Geology from the Federal University of Bahia, Street Jeremoabo Baron, s / n, University Campus Ondina - Salvador - Bahia

Pablício Vieira Moura, Federal University of Bahia

Graduate in Geology from the Federal University of Bahia, Street Jeremoabo Baron, s / n, University Campus Ondina - Salvador - Bahia

Published

2015-05-21

How to Cite

Melo, D. H. C. T. B., Volpi, E. M., Silva, H. M. da, Menezes, L. A., & Moura, P. V. (2015). Acquisition and Reading of Digital Topographic Maps from IBGE. GEOGRAFIA (Londrina), 23(1), 191–204. https://doi.org/10.5433/2447-1747.2014v23n1p191

Issue

Section

Pedagogical Workshops