Publications and Technical Notes from the MapBiomas Project addressing specific issues.

2026

• Analysis of water resource mapping in the Purus and Madeira river basin in the region influenced by the BR-139 highway: Esta nota técnica compara diferentes fontes de dados atualmente disponíveis de hidrografia na Amazônia — em especial as bases do IBGE, da FBDS e do Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR) — com informações obtidas por meio de levantamentos LiDAR aerotransportados, em áreas amostrais localizadas na região do interflúvio entre os rios Purus e Madeira na área de influência da BR-319. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/XDNV5V)

2025

• Using MapBiomas data in the climate agenda: How maps and land cover and land use data contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This publication presents how maps and data from remote sensing can contribute to actions on the climate agenda in Brazil and its mitigation and adaptation strategies. More than just numbers, the data gathered here represent pathways to transform information into action and ensure a more balanced climate future. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/MCG8YH)

2024

• Technical note on land use around kindergarden and middle schools in Brazilian capitals (11.25.2024) - the document presents green areas mapped in kindergarden and middle school surroundings for each brazilian capital and the amount of occupied area by squares and green areas for an imediate buffer of 500 and 1.000 metes around the schools studied.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/GBDTLW)

• Technical Note on the Fire Landscape in Planted Pastures in Brazil (11.21.2024 - only in portugueses) – Presents a historical and current overview (as of 2024) of wildfires in planted pastures in Brazil, addressing the extent, recurrence, most affected biomes, characteristics of impacted areas, and the origin of the fire in these areas.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/PAGOAF)

• Technical Note on the Deforestation History of BR-319 (11.5.2024 – only in portuguese) – Presents data on the deforestation history from 2019 to 2023 in the surrounding area of BR-319.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/EMQIEH)
  

• Technical Note on Urban Vegetation in Brazil (18.07.2024) – Presents data on urban vegetation in Brazil for the year 2022.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/QTH5JU)

• Technical note on extreme drought and fires in the Pantanal in 2024 (12.07.2024) – presents data on extreme drought and fires in Pantanal during the year of 2024.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/XORHCK)

• Technical Note on the impacts of the May 2024 climate event on land cover and land use in Rio Grande do Sul (03.06.2024 - only in Portuguese) – Provides a set of geospatial data regarding the mapping of areas affected by landslides, flash floods, floods, and inundations in Rio Grande do Sul, along with estimates of their extent categorized by land cover and land use types. Acsess here the statistics file here and access the toolkit with visualization and download of maps (https://mapbiomas-workspace.earthengine.app/view/rio-grande-do-sul-climate-emergency-toolkit). Orientation file for using the raster on QGIS.. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/1XIXYM)

• Explanatory Note on Deforestation in the Pampa biome – Annual Deforestation Report (RAD 2023) (31.05.2024 only in Portuguese) - Presents data on deforestation from RAD2023 and the loss of grassland vegetation in Pampa, in addition to deforestation detection systems in the biome.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/81FW21)

• Technical Note on the severe drought in the state of Amazonas in September 2023 (22.02.2024 - Only in Portuguese) - Presents data on the drought in the state of Amazonas in September 2023. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/HNDBJM)

• Technical Note on the Conservation of the Plain and Plateau in the Upper Paraguay River Basin (25.01.2024 - only in Portuguese) - Presents data on the liability and surplus of native vegetation in Legal Reserves on rural properties in the lowlands (Pantanal) and highlands, as well as in the biomes, in the BAP and in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/U38KPX)

2023

• Technical Note on the deforestation in the state of Santa Catarina (04.10.2023 - only in Portuguese) – Presents a profile of deforestation in the state of Santa Catarina for the period from 2019 to 2023 by size classes of deforestation events.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/C9SV4D)

• Technical Note on Analysis of the expansion of urbanized areas on the north coast of São Paulo (27.02.2023 - only in portuguese) - Presents analyzes of the increase in the urbanized area from 1985 to 2021 in the municipalities on the North Coast of São Paulo affected by a large volume of rain between February 18 and 19, 2023.https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/O0OBJE)

2022

• Technical Note on urban occupation around water bodies in Brazil (01.08.2022 - only in portuguese) - Presents analyzes of the areas occupied and not occupied by urbanization in the marginal range of 30 m of urban water bodies between 1985 and 2020 in Brazil (which correspond to the minimum range of APP provided for in the Forest Code).https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/ZLS3BH)

• Nota Técnica Potential impacts of due diligence criteria on the protection of threatened South American non-forest natural ecosystems (versão atualizada 07.07.2022) - presents an evaluation of natural ecosystems in South Amercia that would not be protected by the european regulation proposal against imported products from deforestated areas if the FAO forestry definition would have been used as criterion. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/A71EKC)

• Technical note on sendiment suspension on Tapajós Basin (01.24.2022) - Presents analyzes on possible causes for the increase of sediments on Tapajós River Basin in Pará State. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/YENT41)

2021

• Technical note on mining in the Madeira River (12.01.2021) - presents the viability of remotely detection and monitoring of mining raft boats on Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/OEOSDG)

2020

• Nota Técnica sobre o Impacto do Despacho n. 4410/2020 do Ministério do Meio Ambiente – Estima quantitativamente o impacto do Despacho no 4.410/2020 do Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) no total de áreas degradadas a serem recuperadas na Mata Atlântica. (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/V0GWI0)

• Technical note on pasture mapping (06.12.2020) -- Clarifies questions raised on the mapping of pastures areas made by MapBiomas and the differences for others estimates of pasture areas in Brazil . (https://doi.org/10.58053/MapBiomas/86OHHF)