Other Initiatives
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The Brazilian Annual Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Project is an initiative that involves a collaborative network of biomes, land use, remote sensing, GIS and computer science experts that rely on Google Earth Engine platform and its cloud processing and automated classifiers capabilities to generate Brazil’s annual land use and land cover time series. -
The Project of "Annual Mapping of Land Cover and Use of the Gran Chaco Americano" is an initiative that involves a collaborative network of specialists from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, in topics such as land use, satellite remote sensing, GIS and programming. It uses cloud processing and automated classifiers developed and operated from the Google Earth Engine platform to generate a historical series of annual maps of land cover and use in the Gran Chaco Americano. -
The Project "Annual Mapping of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) of the Trinational Atlantic Forest" is an initiative that involves a collaborative network of specialists from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, in topics such as land use, satellite remote sensing, GIS, and programming. It uses cloud processing and automated classifiers developed and operated from the Google Earth Engine platform to generate a historical series of annual maps of land cover and use in the Trinational Atlantic Forest. -
MapBiomas Pampa Sudamericano is an initiative that involves a collaborative network of specialists from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay in topics such as land use, satellite remote sensing, GIS and programming. Our objective is to understand the processes of transformation that take place in the territory of the Pampa Sudamericano through the annual monitoring of land cover and land use changes. It uses cloud processing and automated classifiers developed and operated from the Google Earth Engine platform to generate a historical series of annual maps of land cover and land use in the Pampa Sudamericano. -
MapBiomas Alert is a system of validation and refinement of alerts of deforestation, degradation, and regeneration of native vegetation with high-resolution images. This current version is dedicated exclusively to the theme of deforestation in all Brazilian biomes and will expand to the other themes over the next two years. -
The MapBiomas Arid Project is an initiative of the Ministry of the Environment, financed by the GEF and UNDP, with the objective of creating a monitoring system for degraded areas in the Northeastern region of Brazil, as well as monitoring the areas of interventions that aim to mitigate the processes of desertification carried out in Degraded Area Recovery Units (URAD). The State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS) and the Association of Northeastern Plants (APNE) are responsible for the execution of the project. -
The MapBiomas Network has launched yet another initiative: the territorial mapping of the dynamics of surface water and water bodies for the entire national territory since 1985. Like MapBiomas Fire, the Water series processed more than 150 thousand images generated by the Landsat 5, 7 satellites and 8 from 1985 to 2020. -
The MapBiomas network launched another unprecedented initiative: the mapping of fire scars in Brazil, with information on the burned area, location and type of land cover for the past 20 years.