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MapBiomas Award

News about the 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award soon!

The 4th edition of the MapBiomas Award, in partnership with Instituto Ciência Hoje, ended on August 9, 2022, with an online ceremony to announce the winners and for them to present their works. This year's edition aimed to stimulate applications and works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative, module or product, including initiatives from other countries (e.g. MapBiomas Amazonia, Chaco, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Indonesia), and different products, such as MapBiomas Alert, MapBiomas Arida and Geo-covid (https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/initiatives).

Check out the awards ceremony:

Winners of the 4th Edition of the MapBiomas Award

Know more about the winning works of the 4th Edition of the MapBiomas Award below:

General Category
- 1st place: Trevor Ray Tisler (UFMG)
  Conservation opportunities and challenges in Brazil’s roadless and railroad-less areas

- 2nd place: Patricia Guidão Cruz Ruggiero (USP)
  Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest

Young Category
- 1st place: Alexandre Bomfim Gurgel do Carmo (UFSCar)
  Análise Qualitativa, Quantitativa e Temporal da Cobertura de Vegetação Nativa das Zonas de Amortecimento das Unidades de Conservação do Estado de São Paulo

- 2nd place: Bruno Antônio Manzolli (UFMG)
  Diagnóstico da exploração de ouro no Brasil

Highlight Applications in Public Policies
- Winner: Mariella Butti de Freitas Guilherme
  Habitat loss estimation to assess terrestrial mammal species extinction risk: an open data framework

- Honorable Mention: Lucas Sá Barreto Jordão (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro)
  O MapBiomas e a avaliação do risco de extinção da flora brasileira

- Honorable Mention: Jakeline Bezerra Pinheiro (MPE Acre)
  Utilização da plataforma MapBiomas Alertas como ferramenta base da força tarefa para combate às queimadas e desmatamentos ilegais no âmbito do Ministério Público do estado do Acre

Highlight Applications in Business
- Winner: Renato Kreczkiuski (Klabin) & Rafael Gomes (Agrotools)
  Compliance ambiental utilizando dados do MapBiomas

The 4th Edition of the MapBiomas Award

In this edition the awarded works were divided in four categories:

General Category: Works regardless of age and education level;
Young Category: Works whose first author is under 30 years old and has not completed graduation or completed it throughout 2021;
Highlight Applications in Public Policy: Works regardless of age and education level;
New Category - Highlight Applications in Business: Works regardless of age and education level.

Winners in each category will be awarded as follows:

1st place in General Category - value of R$ 15,000.00 (fifteen thousand reais);
2nd place in General Category - value of R$ 10,000 (ten thousand reais);
1st place in the Young Category - value of R$ 10,000 (ten thousand reais);
2nd place in the Young Category - value of R$5,000 (five thousand reais);
Highlight Applications in Public Policies - value of R$ 10,000 (ten thousand reais);
Highlight Applications in Business - value of R$ 10,000 (ten thousand reais).

All winners will receive an annual subscription to Ciência Hoje Digital Magazine, in addition to a scholarship for a course about Geoprocessing of satellite images using Google Earth Engine (promoted by Solved), and the production of a short video (up to 2 minutes) about the winning work.

Registration closed.

AWARD RULES

COMMON QUESTIONS

If you have any questions, please send an email to premio@mapbiomas.org

Launch Webinar

The launch webinar of the 4th Edition of the MapBiomas Award was held to present the news of this edition and how to use the new data and modules of the MapBiomas platform in Brazil. Check out below or click here to watch directly from our YouTube channel.

Find out more about previous editions

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