Author(s)

Leandro Andrei Beser de Deus^1,2*, Fábio Giusti Azevedo de Britto³, Camilla Silva Motta dos Santos³, Cynara Alets Sthuasth Souza de Melo França¹, Claudia Daza Andrade¹, Vera Jane Ruffato Pereira Ferreira¹, Daniel de Berrêdo Viana¹, Marcos Aurélio Vasconcelos de Freitas¹

¹Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used essentially for spatial analysis. They can lead to the development of methods for analyzing and planning the use of geographical space and, consequently, are helpful to the decision making process, assisting those responsible for planning the use of a certain territory. This article is a result of the “Project for the Integrated and Sustainable Management of Trans- boundary Hydric Resources of the Amazon Basin considering Variability and Climate Change”, which has the goal of strengthening institutional guidelines in order to plan and execute activities related to the protection of the land, hydric resources and sustainable management of the Amazon Basin, considering the existing impacts of climatic changes. This article aims at analyzing the process of building and implementing the GeoAmazonas GIS as one of the instruments for managing the basin, including its contribution for standardizing different data sources in the entire area of the basin and the identification of conflicts related the use of water resources and vulnerability situations.

Geographic Information System, Amazon, Transboundary Basins

de Deus, L. , de Britto, F. , dos Santos, C. , de Melo França, C. , Andrade, C. , Ferreira, V. , de Berrêdo Viana, D. and de Freitas, M. (2016) GeoAmazonas—GIS for Water Resources Management. Journal of Geographic Information System, 8, 558-577. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2016.85047.