Mapbiomas Brasil

MapBiomas Fire

17.5% of Brazil has burned at least once in 20 years

5th MapBiomas Annual Seminar: Revealing the land use in Brazil with science and transparency

Launch of Collection 5.0 (1985 - 2019)

3rd MapBiomas Award

Registration EXTENDED until February 7th, 2021. Read the award's rules and subscribe your work

Annual Deforestation Report 2019

Unprecedented MapBiomas report consolidates deforestation data in all Brazilian biomes and points to loss of at least 1.2 million hectares of native vegetation

Portal Covid Brazil

Monitoring and projections of the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, organized by municipality, state and the whole country

MapBiomas

MapBiomas is a multi-institutional initiative involving universities, NGOs and technology companies that have come together to contribute to understanding the transformations of the Brazilian territory through the annual mapping of land cover and land use in Brazil

MAPBIOMAS BRAZIL NEWS

Reviewed historical series

MapBiomas Collection 5 data show the 35 years (1985 to 2019) of Brazil's annual land cover and use maps on a 30 m scale with improvements in accuracy in the biomes and new classes of agriculture. The new limit of biomes on a scale of 1:250,000 from IBGE has already been used.

More classes and data layers

The number of classes mapped in Collection 5 increased from 19 to 21, including soy (2000-2019), cane, and perennial crop classes (beta version). Maps of the irrigated agriculture in Brazil (2000-2018) and pasture quality (2010 and 2018) were produced both in beta version.

Deforestation and regeneration

Data of native vegetation suppression and regeneration data for all Brazilian biomes covering the period of 1988 to 2017.

Infrastructure Information

Historical data on Brazil's energy, transportation, and mining infrastructure were incorporated including roads, railways, airports, hydroelectric, thermoelectric, and transmission lines, among others.