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of the sea are extremely important for Brazil subsidizing the elaboration of the Marine Figure 3. Limits of marine and maritime spaces under national jurisdiction
to configure, in fact, its potential power in Spatial Management Plan and the Situation represented in the INDE Geoportal: Baseline, Territorial Sea, Contiguous
real power as a country with a true vocation Maps, which will present the spatial and Zone, EEZ and outer limit of the Continental Shelf
to be a Maritime Power in the South Atlantic. temporal distribution of the current and po-
As a consequence of the migration of eco- tential uses and activities.
nomic activities to the sea and its surround- Additionally, the availability of all these
ings, Marine Spatial Planning has become an valuable marine data at the INDE begins to
increasingly relevant public instrument for the allow governmental and non-governmental
effective ordering of these activities. There is institutions access to high-cost marine data,
a long way to go for national Marine Spatial such as bathymetry, geology, geophysics,
Planning. The State can intensify the negoti- oceanography, among others, collected
ations for the elaboration of the MSP, in part- throughout the Amazônia Azul (Blue Ama-
nerships with the private sector. zon). and that are capable of revealing areas
However, one cannot forget that trans- of high exploration/exploitation potential,
national actors, in an increasingly global- hitherto unknown by certain strategic sec-
ized world, have a great interest in resourc- tors (mining, oil and gas, mining, among
es from peripheral countries (MILTON SAN- others). As a result, operational costs (finan-
TOS, 2001). Conflicts of interest, especially cial and temporal) are significantly mitigat-
with exclusively private investments, can ed, referring to extensive maritime surveys

lead to not so rational prioritization in a ma- in an area of 5.7 million km².
rine ecosystem with diverse political-eco- Furthermore, public access to the INDE Source: SECIRM. Author‘s elaboration
nomic interactions (VIOLANTE, 2021b). Geoportal will avoid redundancy in the col-
lection of marine data by the various institu- The National Spatial Data Infrastructure varied purposes by any user with Internet ac-
4.3 Which areas of knowledge can tions, optimizing the use of public and pri- (Infraestrutura Nacional de Dados Espaciais – cess. The cataloging of geospatial data is made
the MSP motivate? INDE in Portuguese) was instituted by Decree using their respective metadata by the produc-
vate capital invested, increasing the efficiency No. 6,666 of 11/27/2008, with the purpose of ers and/or managers of the Dice. By the Decree
The successful design and implementa- and competitiveness of companies operating cataloging, integrate and harmonize geospa- sharing and dissemination of geospatial data
tion of the MSP in the country presupposes in the “Amazônia Azul (Blue Amazon)”. tial data produced, maintained and managed and its metadata is mandatory for all agencies
the existence and continuous maintenance Also noteworthy is the INDE’s commit- by the institutions of Brazilian government, and entities of the federal and voluntary Exec-
of a national data infrastructure, capable of ment to safeguarding the institutions’ con- so that they can be easily located, explored in utive Power for the bodies and entities of the
their characteristics and accessed for the most
Powers State, District and Municipal executives.
guaranteeing easy, fast, and secure access fidential data, as well as those of relevance
to the entire collection of marine data col- to National Security. The ease of access to
lected in the Amazônia Azul (Blue Amazon). marine data at the INDE should stimulate 4.4 Future Economic Prospects and cuisine. Of these activities, just to ex-
The contribution of the Brazilian Institute the development of a series of research and emplify the enormous importance of the
of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has been innovations in different areas of knowledge, Among the main economic activities sea for the national economy, it is high-
fundamental, by providing the National Spa- especially in the field of ocean sciences. 9 directly influenced by the sea in Brazil, lighted that the maritime fields, in Feb-
tial Data Infrastructure (INDE), established Within the scope of the MSP, some ma- the following stand out: oil and gas, de- ruary 2021, were responsible for 96.7%
by means of Decree nº 6.666, of November rine data have already been entered into fense, ports and maritime transport, na- of the oil and 83.4% of the natural gas
27, 2008. This significantly reduced the time the INDE Geoportal, such as the limits of val industry, mineral extraction, tourism produced in the country and that about
and costs for the implementation of the MSP maritime spaces under national jurisdiction and nautical sports, fishing and aqua- 95% of Brazilian foreign trade is shipped
in Brazil by allowing the integration of data, (BRASIL, 2022a) (Figure 3). culture, biotechnology, popular culture, by sea (ANP, 2021).

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