MapBiomas Brasil

Technical notes developed by the MapBiomas Project regarding specific issues.

Technical Note on Urban Vegetation in Brazil (18.07.2024) – Presents data on urban vegetation in Brazil for the year 2022.

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..

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.

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.

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 2019 to 2023 by size classes of deforestation events.

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.

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).

Technical Note on Potential impacts of due diligence criteria on the protection of threatened South American non-forest natural ecosystems (updated version 07.07.2022) – Presents an assessment of natural ecosystems in South America that the proposed European regulation would protect by against imported deforestation if the FAO definition of forests were used as a criterion.

Technical Note on Suspended Sediments in the Tapajós Watershed (24.1.2022 - only in Portuguese) – Presents an analysis of possible causes of increased sediments in the Tapajós River Basin in the State of Pará.

Technical Note on Madeira River Garimpos (12.01.2021 - only in Portuguese) – Presents the feasibility of remote detection and monitoring of garimpo activity in Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon.

Technical Note on the Impact of Dispatch n. 4410/2020 of the Ministry of the Environment (only in Portuguese) – Quantitatively estimates the impact of Dispatch No. 4.410/2020 of the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) on the total of degraded areas to be recovered in the Atlantic Forest.

Technical Note on Pasture Mapping (12.06.2020 - only in Portuguese) – Clarifies doubts raised about MapBiomas' pasture mapping and its differences to other pasture area estimates performed in Brazil.