DELIMITATION OF INDIAN LAND IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL 
COLONIZED AREAS WITH REMOTE SENSING 
Rosemy Nascimento 
Giovani Cherini 
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC 
Dept. Engenharia Civil - P6s-Graduaçäo 
Campus Universitário - Trindade - Caixa Postal 476 
88040-900 - Florianópolis - SC, Brazil 
ISPRS Commission VII / Working Group 3 
ABSTRACT 
This papers shows a work which is being developed by DAC-(Departamento de Assistencia ao 
Cooperativismo da Secretaria da Agricultura do Rio Grande do Sul) and farmers from some Rio Grande 
do Sul townships. It is about using remote sensing that were colonizated by farmers. 
Nowadays, FUNAI - Institution that befriends Indians dues - request these lands to them. However, this 
request is a legal problem to the State because they were sold to farmers to be colonized with the INCRA 
acceptance. So, DAC has been trying to find a way to solve this problem, using tools and techniques to 
optimize the delimitation and the use of these areas, even with the possibility of new land to Indians or 
farmers. 
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