Castro, Angelica Felix deSouto, Michael Vandesteen SilvaAmaro, Venerando EustáquioVital, Helenice2021-01-072021-01-072003CASTRO, A. F. ; SOUTO, M. ; AMARO, V. E. . Desenvolvimento e aplicação de um banco de dados geográficos na elaboração de mapas da morfodinâmica costeira e sensibilidade ambiental ao derramamento de óleo em áreas costeiras localizadas no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, v. 33, n.2, p. 53-64, 2003. Disponível em: http://www.ppegeo.igc.usp.br/index.php/rbg/article/view/9842. Acesso em: 29 dez. 2020.0375-7536https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/31228The coastal area of northern Rio Grande do Norte State is submitted to intense and constant processes of littoral and aeolian transport, causing erosion, alteration in the sediment balance and modifications of the shoreline. Beyond these natural factors, human interference is huge in the surroundings due to the Guamaré Petroliferous Pole nearby, the largest terrestrial oil producer in Brazil. There is a bulky amount of data from the study area such as geologic and geophysical multitemporal data, hydrodynamic measurements and remote sensing multitemporal images, among others; it is extremely important to elaborate a Geographic Database (GD), one of the main components of a Geographic Information System (GIS), to store the information, allowing the access to researchers and users. The first part of this work consisted of elaboration a GD to store the data of the study area. The main goal was to use the potentiality of the GIS as a tool to support decisions related to the environmental monitoring of this region, a valuable target for oil exploration, salt companies and shrimp farms. The collected data was stored as a virtual library to assist human decision-making from the results presented as digital thematic maps, tables and reports, useful as a source of data in the preventive planning and as guidelines to the future research themes both on regional and local context. The second stage of this work consisted of elaborating the Coastal Morphodinamics Maps and Oil-Spill Environmental Sensitivity Maps. These maps were important in the study of the area, to determine the present situation of the area, evaluating its potentials and fragilitiesBancos de dados geográficosSensibilidade ambiental ao derramamento de óleoMorfodinâmica costeiraarticle