The winners of the 6th MapBiomas Award
The eight winners of the 6th Edition of the MapBiomas Award were announced on Wednesday, August 21, during the award ceremony at the 9th Annual MapBiomas Seminar – Brazil in Transformation: Land Use and Climate Risks, in Brasília.
This year, there were 193 submissions—a record number of entries. The works competed in 6 categories: General, Youth, Highlight in Public Policy Applications, Highlight in Business Applications, Applications in Schools, and Actions Against Deforestation. The winners will receive a total of R$ 80,000 in prizes.
Each awarded work will also receive a one-year subscription to the Ciência Hoje Digital magazine, as well as a scholarship for a course on Geoprocessing of Satellite Images using Google Earth Engine promovido pela Solved e a produção de um vídeo curto (até 2 minutos) sobre o trabalho vencedor.
In partnership with the Instituto Ciência Hoje, the award aims to encourage applications and projects that use data from any MapBiomas module or initiative, including initiatives from other countries, and different products such as MapBiomas Alerta, MapBiomas Fogo, MapBiomas Água, and MapBiomas Solo.
To learn more about the initiatives, visit: brasil.mapbiomas.org/iniciativas-mapbiomas..
Meet the winners:
GENERAL CATEGORY
1st PLACE
Juliana Lira da Silva e Cunha Brandão (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Behind the Cattle Industry: Modern Slave Labor Used to Produce Brazil’s Beef and Leather
2nd PLACE
Paula Conde Santos Borba (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
Land conservation and the renewable energy
transition are simultaneously possible in Brazil DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101520
YOUTH CATEGORY
1st PLACE
Vinícius de Andrade Urbano (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
Human land use drives to trophic structure change of apex fish in Neotropical wetlands
2nd PLACE
Carlos Henrique de Andrade (Universidade Estadual Paulista – Câmpus do Litoral Paulista)
Assessment of carbon sequestration and stock potential in different land use and management scenarios in mangroves in the Baixada Santista
HIGHLIGHT CATEGORY: PUBLIC POLICY APPLICATIONS
WINNER
Murilo Raphael Dias Cardoso (SEMAD-GO)
Application of deforestation alerts and land use and cover mapping from the mapbiomas network in combating illegal deforestation in the State of Goiás
HIGHLIGHT CATEGORY: BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
WINNER
Leandro Reverberi Tambosi (Universidade Federal do ABC e Universidad de Alicante)
Impact of forest restoration on the landscape dynamics of the Itaipu Binational hydroelectric plant
HIGHLIGHT CATEGORY: APPLICATIONS IN SCHOOLS
WINNER
Rosa Maria Duarte Veloso (Centro Educa Mais Professor Ribamar Torres)
Mapping and classification of springs in urban areas of Pastos Bons, Maranhão
SPECIAL CATEGORY: ACTIONS AGAINST DEFORESTATION
WINNER
Alexandre Gaio (ABRAMPA/MPPR)
Operation Atlantic Forest Standing and the use of satellite images in remote inspections
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Learn more about the categories
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Any work eligible for the MapBiomas Award can compete in this category. Works submitted in other categories automatically also compete in the General Category.
Only works whose author(s) are up to 30 years old and have either not yet completed their undergraduate degree or graduated in 2023.
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Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in public policy projects.
Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in businesses that contribute to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources.
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Papers that use data from any MapBiomas initiative to support actions to reduce, combat and monitor deforestation.
Works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative in basic education (kindergarten, elementary or high school), such as, for example, in teaching materials, classes and other curricular and extracurricular activities or teaching resources in schools.
Award
Awards for each category were distributed as follows:
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General Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of
R$ 15,000.00
Fifteen thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of
R$ 10,000.00
Ten thousand reais
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Young Category
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1st
PLACE
Value of
R$ 10,000.00
Ten thousand reais
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2nd
PLACE
Value of
R$ 5,000.00
Five thousand reais
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Highlight Applications in Public Policies
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Highlight Applications in Business
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Highlight Applications in Schools
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Actions to Reduce Deforestation
All winners will be awarded an annual subscription to Revista Ciência Hoje Digital, in addition to a scholarship to take a course on 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.
If you have any questions, please send an email to premio@mapbiomas.org
Previous editions
All winners of previous editions
Juliana Lira da Silva e Cunha Brandão
Edição 6
General Category
Paula Conde Santos Borba
Edição 6
General Category
Vinícius de Andrade Urbano
Edição 6
Young Category
Carlos Henrique de Andrade
Edição 6
Young Category
Murilo Raphael Dias Cardoso
Edição 6
Highlight Applications in Public Policies
Leandro Reverberi Tambosi
Edição 6
Highlight Applications in Business
Rosa Maria Duarte Veloso
Edição 6
Highlight Applications in Schools
Alexandre Gaio
Edição 6
Ações para combate ao desmatamento
