PARTICIPATORY GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM - P-GIS: A PROPOSAL FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR URBAN GOVERNANCE

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https://doi.org/10.5016/geografia.v47i1.16171

Abstract

Knowing the physical space and the social and functional organization of the place where one lives can lead the citizen to exercise citizenship, and education plays an important role when building up this knowledge. One way of looking at this issue is through participatory mapping, a tool of social cartography. In digital cartography, the representation of geographic space adds the concept of geographic information systems – GIS - and remote sensing, so that when participatory mapping uses these concepts, participatory GIS (PGIS) comes up. Thus, the National Institute for Space Research, through the Laboratory for the Application of Spatial Data in Support of Society, enabled high school students from public schools in socially vulnerable areas in the municipality of São José dos Campos to use the P-GIS concept. The students identified and proposed public facilities for their respective territories and produced maps with digital cartographic accuracy as a result of their training in PGIS. This material assisted the students in reaching the public authorities and proposing the spatial (re)organization, corroborating the governance process.

Author Biographies

Rene Junior, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

Mestre em Planejamento Urbano e Regional  pela Universidade do Vale do Paraíba - UNIVAP, Geógrafo pela Universidade do Vale do Paraíba e coordenador do Laboratório de Aplicações de Dados Espaciais em Apoio à Sociedade - LADES. laboratório pertencente ao Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais no departamento de sensoriamento remoto DSR.

Jussara Ortiz, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

Dr. Remote Sensing, Cartographer Eng., researcher and member of the Laboratory of Spatial Data
Applications in Support of Society - LADES of the National Institute for Space Research - INPE.

Giovanna Domiciano, Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP)

Geographer, master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning and member of the Laboratory of Spatial
Data Applications in Support of Society - LADES of the National Institute for Space Research - INPE.

Alexandre Marques, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)

Dr. Science of the Terrestrial System, Geographer, researcher and member of the Laboratory of Spatial Data
Applications in Support of Society - LADES of the National Institute for Space Research - INPE

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2022-07-29

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Vol. 47 No. 1 (2022)

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