MapBiomas Brasil

Winners of the 5th edition of the MapBiomas award

The 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award, held in partnership with the Instituto Ciência Hoje received 163 entries from 7 countries. with the aim of encourage applications and works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative, module or product, 8 were awarded works, with a total prize pool of R$80,000, in addition to three mentions honorable.

In this edition, in addition to the categories General, Youth, Featured Applications in Public Policy and Business, two new categories were launched: Applications in Schools and Actions to Combat Deforestation.

Subscribers quoted or used data from the Network's initiatives MapBiomas: MapBiomas Brasil, MapBiomas Amazônia, Chaco, Bosque Atlantic, South American Pampa and Indonesia. To understand a little more about the initiatives, visit: https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/iniciativas-mapbiomas.

The Award Ceremony happened on wednesday, august 16, at 19h, at Sesc SP - Research and Training Center in São Paulo.

Discover the winners by category

General Category
- 1st PLACE
  Nelson Villoria (Kansas State University), Rachael Garrett, Florian Gollnow, Kimberly Carlson Leakage does not fully offset soy supply-chain efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil
- 2nd PLACE
  Kathryn Baragwanath (Australian Catholic University), Ella Bayi, Nilesh Shinde Collective Property Rights Lead to Secondary Forest Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
- HONORABLE MENTION
  Silver Jonas Alves Farfan (IFSertãoPE), Danielle Celentano, Celso Henrique Leite Silva Junior, Marcus Vinicius de Freitas Silveira, Raymony Tayllon Alves Serra, Jhonatan Andres Munoz Gutierrez, Harryson Corrêa Barros, Monique Hellen Martins Ribeiro, Ortrud Monika Barth, Rogério Marcos de Oliveira Alves, Luis Manuel Hernández García, Guillaume Xavier Rousseau The effect of landscape composition on stingless bee (Melipona fasciculata) honey productivity in a wetland ecosystem of Eastern Amazon, Brazil
Young Category
- 1st PLACE
  Carolina B. Nunes (UFRGS), Kaluan C. Vieira, Paula E. R. Pereyra, Gustavo Hallwass, Renato A. M. Silvano ’From the sky to the ground’: fishers’ knowledge, mapping and hydrological data indicate long term environmental changes in Amazonian clear water rivers
- 2nd PLACE
  Maria Pereira Fleury (Climate Central – Princeton), Reed Maxwell Changing water availability in the São Francisco River Basin, Brazil: exploring the role of expanding agriculture and climate change
- HONORABLE MENTION
  Kaik Fontana Octaviano (UFSCar-Buri), Iuri Emmanuel de Paula Ferreira, Paulo Guilherme Molin, Cristiano Augusto de Souza Bioma Stats: Um Pacote R para Análise de Uso e Ocupação do Solo no Território Brasileiro
Highlight Applications in Public Policies
- WINNER
  Tadeusz Gregorio Alabi (Goin), Rafael Pereira da Silva, Robson Pereira Aleixo Identificação de desmatamento ilegal e exploração de terras para construção irregular por milícias na cidade do Rio de Janeiro através de Inteligência Artificial
Highlight Applications in Business
- WINNER
  Luís Henrique Rosati Rocha (BNDES), Lucas Linhares, Gumersindo Sueiro, Gabriela Nogueira, Eva Khury, Carlos Vinicius de Castro GEOBNDES: Inteligência territorial e crédito sustentável
Actions to Reduce Deforestation
- WINNER
  Apoena Calixto Figuerôa (ICMBio), Leandro Zago da Silva, Virgílio Dias Ferraz Projeto Sinueiro: Ações Sistemáticas de Fiscalização no Combate ao Desmatamento em Unidades de Conservação na Amazônia
Highlight Applications in Schools
- WINNER
  Orione Mendes dos Santos (Escola Estadual Professor Benevides) A Renderização da Educação Ambiental Numa Perspectiva de Estudo do Território
- HONORABLE MENTION
  João Batista Alves de Souza (IFMS), Gabriel Paganini Faggioni Formação e Interatividade do MapBiomas na escola: Conhecendo o Pantanal

Learn more about the categories

Award

Awards for each category were distributed as follows:

General Category
- 1st PLACE
  Value of R$ 15,000.00 Fifteen thousand reais
- 2nd PLACE
  Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
Young Category
- 1st PLACE
  Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
- 2nd PLACE
  Value of R$ 5,000.00 Five thousand reais
Highlight Applications in Public Policies
- Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
Highlight Applications in Business
- Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
Highlight Applications in Schools
- Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais
Actions to Reduce Deforestation
- Value of R$ 10,000.00 Ten thousand reais

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.

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