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Environmental Layers🔗

📖 Overview🔗

The Environmental Layers provide access to a comprehensive collection of geospatial datasets used by EarthDaily Agro to support environmental, agricultural, and compliance analyses in Brazil. Each dataset represents a specific environmental, regulatory, or land-use layer published by official national and state institutions (e.g., IBAMA, INCRA, ICMBio, SEMA, FUNAI). These layers can be queried individually or combined to identify overlaps with agricultural fields, farms, or other geometries — helping users assess legal compliance, conservation areas, and land management boundaries.



⚙️ API Access🔗


🗂️ Dataset🔗

Id Name Description
BR_LEGAL_AMAZON Amazônia Legal Geographical delimitation of all states within the Amazon biome (only Maranhão is partially included)
BR_CAR_CONSOLIDATED_AREA Área Consolidada (CAR) Consolidated areas are the land deforested before 2008-07-22
BR_AGRICULTURAL_AREAS Área de Agricultura Areas with agriculture land use.
BR_CAR_PROPERTIES Área Imóvel (CAR) CAR is a Brazilian national public registry that integrates the environmental information of farms and its limits. The imovel database contains the farms limits.
BR_CAR_APP Áreas de Preservação Permanente (CAR) Permanent Protected land that aims to preserve water resources, landscape, geological stability and biodiversity, facilitate the gene flow of fauna and flora, protect the soil and ensure the well-being of human populations.
BR_RESTRICTED_USAGE Áreas de Uso Restrito (CAR) Wetlands, swamp plains and areas with an inclination between 25° and 45°. Sustainable management and agrosilvopastoral activities are allowed as long as technical recommendations of official agencies are met.
BR_EMBARGOES_FREE_SEMAMT Áreas Desembargadas SEMA-MT Territories that were embargoed before, but fixed (by paying fines and/or promoting environmental projects)
BR_QUILOMBOLAS Áreas Quilombolas Lands occupied by remnants of quilombo communities. They are protected by law to guarantee the communities physical, social, economic and cultural reproduction.
BR_BIOMA Bioma Large set of plant and animal life characterized by the dominant vegetation type.
BR_DESFORESTATION_AFTER_2008 Desmatamento após 2008 Satellite monitoring of clear-cut deforestation per year
EMBARGOES_IAT_PR Embargos IAT-PR Embargoed territories of Paraná due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
BR_EMBARGOES_IBAMA Embargos IBAMA Embargoed territories due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
BR_EMBARGOES_ICMBIO Embargos ICMBIO Embargoed territories (mostly within Conservation Units) due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
BR_LDI_ILLEGAL_DEFORESTATION_PARA Embargos LDI-PA Farms with illegal deforestation in Pará State.
BR_EMBARGOES_SEMAMT Embargos SEMA-MT Embargoed territories of Mato Grosso due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
EMBARGOES_SIGA_GO Embargos SIGA-GO Embargoed territories of Goiás due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
EMBARGOES_SIGA_GO_POINTS Embargos SIGA-GO (pontos) Embargoed territories of Goiás due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
EMBARGOES_SIGA_MT Embargos SIGA-MT Embargoed territories of Mato Grosso due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
EMBARGOES_SIGA_MT_POINTS Embargos SIGA-MT (pontos) Embargoed territories of Mato Grosso due to non-compliance with current environmental legislation.
INFRACAO_SIGA_GO Infração SIGA-GO Environmental infraction of Goiás
INFRACAO_SIGA_GO_POINTS Infração SIGA-GO (pontos) Environmental infraction of Goiás
INFRACAO_SIGA_MT Infração SIGA-MT Environmental infraction of Mato Grosso
INFRACAO_SIGA_MT_POINTS Infração SIGA-MT (pontos) Environmental infraction of Mato Grosso
BRAZIL_MUNICIPIOS Municípios brasileiros Brazilian municipalities borders
BR_WATER_ALLOCATION Outorga d'água Right to use or interfere on water resources, provided by the Government for a certain time, purpose and condition.
BR_CAR_LEGAL_RESERVE Reserva Legal (CAR) Legal reserve are areas legally destined within a farm to hold native vegetation, in a percentage of up to 80%, depending on the biome where the farm is located.
BR_SIGEF_PROPERTIES Sistema de Gestão Fundiária (SIGEF) Land Management System, called SIGEF, is a system developed by INCRA to manage land information in the Brazilian rural areas. It is used to receive, validate, organize, regularize and make available georeferenced information on rural property boundaries.
BR_SNCI_PROPERTIES Sistema Nacional de Cadastro de Imóveis (SNCI) National Property Certification System, called SNCI, is a system developed by INCRA to manage land information in the Brazilian rural areas.
BR_ARCHEOLOGICAL_SITES Sítios Arqueológicos Heritage spread over the territory, comprising not only tangible but also intangible assets, the expression of popular traditions and the identity of the local communities.
BR_ARCHEOLOGICAL_SITES_POINTS Sítios Arqueológicos (pontos) Heritage spread over the territory, comprising not only tangible but also intangible assets, the expression of popular traditions and the identity of the local communities.
BR_INDIGENOUS_LANDS Terras Indígenas Indigenous Land are areas of special use, inhabited by indigenous communities. Those areas belong to the Federal Government, which keeps them for a public purpose by the Indigenous people.
BR_CONSERVATION_UNITS Unidades de Conservação Conservation Units of Full Protection seek nature preservation and only the indirect use of their natural resources is allowed.
BR_CONSERVATION_UNITS_POINTS Unidades de Conservação (pontos) Conservation Units of Full Protection seek nature preservation and only the indirect use of their natural resources is allowed.

📚 Glossary🔗

Term Full Name Description
CAR Cadastro Ambiental Rural Brazilian national public registry integrating environmental information about rural properties, including farm boundaries and environmental features.
INCRA Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária Federal agency responsible for land reform, land management, and maintaining Brazilian national land databases such as SIGEF and SNCI.
IBAMA Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis Federal environmental agency in charge of environmental law enforcement, licensing, and conservation at the national level.
ICMBio Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade Federal agency responsible for managing Brazil’s conservation units and biodiversity preservation.
SEMA-MT Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso State Secretariat for the Environment in Mato Grosso, responsible for environmental regulation and enforcement.
SEMA Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente State-level Secretariat for the Environment (generic term; each state may have its own, e.g., SEMA-MT).
SIGA-GO Sistema de Gestão Ambiental de Goiás State environmental management system for Goiás, used to track infractions, embargoes, and environmental compliance.
SIGA-MT Sistema Integrado de Gestão Ambiental de Mato Grosso State environmental management system for Mato Grosso.
IAT-PR Instituto Água e Terra do Paraná Environmental institute of Paraná responsible for licensing, monitoring, and conservation activities.
LDI-PA Lista de Desmatamento Ilegal do Pará Official list of farms with illegal deforestation in the state of Pará.
SNCI Sistema Nacional de Cadastro de Imóveis Rurais National Property Certification System developed by INCRA to manage cadastral and geospatial data of rural properties.
SIGEF Sistema de Gestão Fundiária Land Management System developed by INCRA to register and validate georeferenced rural property data.

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