Brazilian Agriculture Ministry Implements Intergraph Land Information Management Solutions to Support Land Reform.Business Editors HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2003 New Rural Information System Uses GeoMedia Technology to Manage and Distribute 600,000 Settlements The Brazilian Institute of Settlement and Agrarian Reform agrarian reform, redistribution of the agricultural resources of a country. Traditionally, agrarian, or land, reform is confined to the redistribution of land; in a broader sense it includes related changes in agricultural institutions, including credit, taxation, (INCRA INCRA Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (land agency National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform) INCRA International Copper Research Association ) has selected Intergraph's (Nasdaq:INGR) land information management solutions as the foundation of a new system to support land access democratization de·moc·ra·tize tr.v. de·moc·ra·tized, de·moc·ra·tiz·ing, de·moc·ra·tiz·es To make democratic. de·moc for the country. The system allows the Brazilian government to overcome previous technology and geographic obstacles for quick identification and distribution of land suitable for settlement by the people of Brazil. A division of the Brazilian Agriculture Ministry, INCRA, with the support of SERPRO, a governmental IT services provider, and SISGRAPH LTDA LTDA Limitada (Portuguese; similar to Limited Liability Company) LTDA Limitada (Spanish) LTDA London Taxi Drivers Association LTDA Lower Tier Defended Area LTDA Low Temperature Die Attach ., Intergraph's exclusive Latin American distributor, designed, developed, and implemented the SIR -- Sistema de Informacoes Rurais (Rural Information System) -- based on GeoMedia(R) desktop and Web technology. The system was built as a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. database incorporating data, including ownership records, parcel boundaries, soil types, and declivity de·cliv·i·ty n. pl. de·cliv·i·ties A downward slope, as of a hill. [Latin d  cl integrated with remote sensing Deriving digital models of an area on the earth. Using special cameras from airplanes or satellites, either the sun's reflections or the earth's temperature is turned into digital maps of the area. technology. The comprehensive system provides functionality for the initial assessment of an area's agricultural potential and identification of suitability for settlement. Integrated capabilities are also included to define new parcels and record property certificates. The SIR system further improves efficiency by providing interactive access for multiple departments within the country. Departments across the nation have access via the Web to the latest up-to-date information, allowing them to provide a higher quality of customer service. The INCRA's twenty-six state branches access SIR to perform local daily tasks, such as inputting and validating tabular and graphic data, issuing property certificates, and updating land information. In addition, more than 300 municipalities currently use the system to verify information for landowners requesting public loans. Implementing a spatial corporate database with live links to geographically dispersed departments and automated real-time workflows has enabled INCRA to eliminate redundancy and improve accuracy of their land data. Edaldo Gomes, project manager of INCRA, commented on the benefits that the agency has realized. "Our former process was very time consuming and could cause mistakes. SIR has allowed us to increase the number of land certificates we issue in a reduced amount of time. Real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. updates are also providing huge time savings. As soon as information has been included in the system, it is available for users to perform analysis such as land utilization percentage, type of culture in specific areas, and parcel evolution over time." In managing land settlements for Brazil, the world's fifth-largest country in terms of land area, INCRA needed reliable, state-of-the-art technology that could handle the large amounts of geospatial and asset data associated with Brazil's 600,000 settlements. INCRA chose Intergraph's GeoMedia, GeoMedia Professional, GeoMedia WebMap, GeoMedia WebMap Professional, and MFWorks because of the software's proven ability to integrate and manage disparate data across the enterprise as well as the expertise of SISGRAPH's technical team. INCRA INCRA, the Brazilian Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform, was founded in 1970. With more than 4,000 employees, its headquarters is located in Brasilia. INCRA has branches in 26 other Brazilian states and is responsible for managing 3.3 million square miles of land, an area equivalent to 85% of the entire United States. Its mission is to identify suitable areas for settlements and generate official registers, creating opportunities for full citizenship for the entire rural population. Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions is a leading geospatial solutions provider for the following markets: local, state, and federal government; transportation; utilities; communications; location-based services; photogrammetry photogrammetry: see aerial and satellite photography. ; remote sensing; cartography cartography: see map. cartography or mapmaking Art and science of representing a geographic area graphically, usually by means of a map or chart. Political, cultural, or other nongeographic features may be superimposed. ; and military and intelligence. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com/imgs. Intergraph and GeoMedia are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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