The compatibility of data in cross-border areas: the case of the Pantanal in the border Brazil/MS and Bolivia

Abstract

The present investigation aims to contribute to studies related to the Pantanal, presenting steps and procedures for data integration and compatibility in the region of Corumbá and Ladário/Mato Grosso do Sul/Brazil and Puerto Suarez and Puerto Quijarro/Santa Cruz/Bolivia. Thus, it seeks to understand and assist other researchers who seek to deepen the studies on this theme as well as on the study area. For that, geotechnologies were used, more precisely ArcGis 10^®, to operationalize the shapes and integrate information from the Bolivian and Brazilian sides, seeking the same pattern of nomenclatures for both sides of the border. The physical components analyzed were geology, relief and vegetation, essential information for any and all studies related to the landscape. As a result, it was possible to identify a significant variation of scales in the mapping, being necessary to modify the class nomenclature, taking into account mainly the characteristics of minerals and rocks (geology), hypsometry and slope (relief) and the size and density of the vegetation cover (vegetation). In addition, the varied scales did not allow for the modification of the nomenclatures alone, requiring detailed mapping through satellite images, digital terrain models and field work. The achievement of such compatibility was, finally, efficient, making it possible and reliable the interactions of the information and also allowing thematic mapping, in order to guide the execution of other researches related to landscape and the Pantanal South Mato Grosso area of study.