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Brazil

Annual

national

Brazilian land use and land cover

[MapBiomas](http://mapbiomas.org/), Collection 2.3

[Terms of Use](http://mapbiomas.org/pages/terms_of_use)

MapBiomas is a multi-institutional initiative to generate annual land cover and land use maps for all of Brazil using automatic classification processes applied to satellite images in Google Earth Engine. More than 20 organizations are collaborators on the project.<br><br>The displayed data comes from Collection 2.3, and shows land cover and land use annually for the period 2000 to 2016. Experts map land cover and land use for each Brazilian biome individually (Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, Pampa, and Pantanal) and then combine the maps with cross-cutting mapping on agriculture, pasture, urban infrastructure and the coastal zone. All processing is done on Landsat images within the collaborative MapBiomas Workspace app created by the project to run Google Earth Engine. The process uses a Random Forest classifier to group pixels into classes, with spatial and temporal filters to remove spurious pixels and impossible land use transitions between years. More detailed methodology for each biome and theme is available [here]( http://mapbiomas.org/pages/methodology).<br><br>Maps and statistics of land cover and use change are presented for different periods (2000-2016, 2000-2001, etc.) on the MapBiomas portal. All data is available for download at the website of the project and maps are also available as assets to be used directly at Google Earth Engine platform. <br><br>Learn more: [http://mapbiomas.org](http://mapbiomas.org) or send inquiries to [contato@mapbiomas.org]( contato@mapbiomas.org)

This data set shows annual land use and land cover for Brazil from 2000 to 2016

The data has an overall accuracy of 79.5%, with different biomes and classes ranging from 63 to 88%. A complete analysis of accuracy by biome, class and year is presented on the [MapBiomas platform](http://mapbiomas.org/pages/accuracy-analysis).<br><br>MapBiomas maps have their best application up to zoom levels 12-13 (indicated in the URL). Though it is possible to view the data more zoomed in, the authors do not recommend using the data at this scale.<br><br>This product is a working in progress. In 2018 a new collection will be launch with data from 1985 to 2017.

They would like us to use the same color scheme, link to them for downloading

More comprehensive land cover data for Brazil, Norway really wants us to add it

http://mapbiomas.org/

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