Highlights

• MORE THAN THREE DECADES OF DATA

  The MapBiomas Collection 7.1 of Brazil's annual maps of land cover and land use covers the period from 1985 to 2021 on a 30 m spatial resolution. This new collection has some improvements in accuracy in the biomes and two new classes (Cotton and Herbaceous Sandbank Vegetation), mapping 27 classes.

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• DEFORESTATION AND SECONDARY VEGETATION

  Deforestation and secondary vegetation growth data for all Brazilian biomes from 1987 to 2019, including classification between native vegetation types and successional stage - primary or secondary native vegetation.

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• MINING INFORMATION

  New data published on the evolution of industrial mining and mining areas from 1985 to 2020.

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• IRRIGATION AND GRASSLAND QUALITY

  Check out new features and layers of information, such as the evolution of the irrigation area and the evaluation of pasture quality in Brazil.

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• THE IMPACT OF FIRE

  Data from Collection 2 of MapBiomas Fogo present the impacts of fire on the national territory over 37 years (1985 and 2022). In each of these years, Brazil burned an area larger than England: 150,957 km² per year, or 1.8% of the country. The accumulated result for the period reaches practically one fifth of the national territory: 1,672,142 km², or 19.6% of Brazil, with 65% of the total burned area being natural vegetation.

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• WATER SURFACE REDUCTION

  Besides the water surface gain in 2022, the data of MapBiomas' Collection 2, from 1985 to 2022, indicate a loss tendency in the water surface at all Brazil's watershed regions.

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