Benchmark map of deforestation for Amazonia

This dataset represents the mapping of deforestation (old-growth forest only) for Amazonia between 1986 and 2020 based on MapBiomas (https://amazonia.mapbiomas.org/en) land-use and land-cover maps. Below is some important information.

• Here we define deforestation as the replacement of a forest formation pixel with an anthropic pixel (e.g., farming, agriculture, urban, or mining) each year;
• We consider only the forest formation class (ID=3) from the MapBiomas dataset;
• We adopted 1985 as the baseline for the initial area of the old-growth forest;
• Once cleared, a forest pixel remains cleared; for mapping the dynamics of secondary forests, access: https://github.com/celsohlsj/gee_brazil_sv;
• The dataset is free to use, but if you use it in your work, please cite the zenodo repository and our paper correctly. We also welcome users to invite us for collaboration.

Dataset access

The final data layers (v1; 1986-2020 period) based on MapBiomas Amazonia Collection 3 can be accessed from the Zenodo repository: https://zenodo.org/record/6808579

Access to data asset in Google Earth Engine:

Data asset Brazil v2 (MapBiomas Collection 9) [1986-2023]

ID: users/celsohlsj/public/brazil_deforestation_vegetation_1986_2023_collection9_v2

Data asset Amazonia v1 (MapBiomas Collection 3) [1986-2020]

ID: users/celsohlsj/public/amazonia_deforestation_1986_2020_collection3_v1

Data asset Brazil v1 (MapBiomas Collection 6) [1986-2020]

ID: users/celsohlsj/public/brazil_deforestation_1986_2020_collection6_v1

Associated Publications:

The map was used in the following manuscript:

Silveira, M.V. F., Silva-Junior, C.H.L., Anderson, L.O., Aragão, L.E.O.C. Amazon fires in the 21st century: the year of 2020 in evidence. Global Ecology and Biogeography (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13577

If you use the script and/or dataset, please cite the following references:

• Silveira, M.V. F., et al. Amazon fires in the 21st century: the year of 2020 in evidence. Global Ecology and Biogeography (2022). doi: 10.1111/geb.13577
• Silva-Junior, C. H. L. . (2022). Benchmark maps of deforestation for Amazonia [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6808579