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culture of maps utilization, brings about an enhanced 
understanding concerning to environmental interest issues. 
2.3.6 | Carbon Monitoring 
2.3.6.1 Planning of carbon inventory: as a subsidy to 
the inventory, it were produced detailed cross-references of 
soils, vegetation and hipsometry. With these data it is 
possible to plan the instalation of carbon monitoring plots, 
distributed in the best way and quantity in the diverse 
ambients and in successive stages of the forest. 
2.3.6.2 Georeferencing of pemanent plots: From the 
data collected at the field and those of the planning, the 
localizations of the Monitoring Plots are fed to GIS. Those 
consist of carbon stock sampling places through the 
measuring of trees diameter. Each plot receives a 
denomination and is contained in a group. With this 
identification it is possible to connect the multitemporal data 
base to each installed plot. 
2.3.6.3 Determination of carbon stock: Plots for 
monitoring are installed not only for the case of forest areas 
but also for the recovering areas (trees plantation). From the 
plot's carbon stock analyses averages a projection is done for 
the total vegetal typology area. 
2.3.6.4 Correlativeness between the carbon stock and 
type of soil, relief, climate and draining: The analysis of 
carbon stock data by physical environment type complement 
the studies of carbon biomass in Brazil. The results between 
the SPVS project areas and the data from other geographic 
regions are compared. 
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3. CONCLUSIONS 
Environment projects normally have limited resources, that 
come from governmental or private funds, with specific 
activities and well defined targets. Not always such projects 
foresee a data organization in a Geographic Information 
System, although the culture of using GIS in projects is being 
consolidated year-after-year. It is all dependent on the 
professionals that prepare the projects that apply for these 
funds. For the sake of the success in the completion of the 
tasks it is indispensable to use the GIS and to elaborate 
projects that involve geoprocessing activities. All the 
concepts already stablished as management tools, quickness 
and precision in the decision-making, possibility to forecasts 
and premises, ambient for complex relationships and to 
demonstrate with the proposed facilities and results turn the 
costs involved with GIS easily justifiable. The SPVS, as a 
model researcher and elaborator, mantain its own Laboratory 
for Geographic Information System already for 7 years. All 
the SPVS projects are attended by this Laboratory, so the 
institution have understood in practice the effectiveness that 
can be achievable with GIS use. 
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