{"id":24,"date":"2023-07-24T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-argentina.mapbiomas.org\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:26:19","slug":"descripcion-general-de-la-metodologia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/descripcion-general-de-la-metodologia\/","title":{"rendered":"MapBiomas methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find the main methodological characteristics of MapBiomas Argentina for producing land cover and land use maps and transitions between different years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can access the ATBD (Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document) with a complete description of the methodology and algorithms by following the link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MapBiomas Argentina Collection 1 \u2013 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/05\/ATBD-MapBiomas-Argentina-Coll-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ATBD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MapBiomas Argentina Colecci\u00f3n 2- <a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATBD_ARG_col2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ATBD COL2 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATBD is a document that is updated in each collection with new information and learnings. There is a General ATBD for MapBiomas Argentina with a set of annexes detailing specific characteristics in the classification of different regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATDB_Atlantic-Forest_col5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlantic Forest<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATBD-Chaco-Collection-6.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chaco<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATBD_Collection_5_PampaArg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pampas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATBD_MontePunaAltosAndes_col2.docx.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monte, Puna y Altos Andes&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/02\/ATDB-MapBiomas-Patagonia-Coll-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Patagonia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>All annual land cover and land use maps of the MapBiomas Argentina are produced from the pixel-by-pixel classification of Landsat satellite images. The whole process is carried out on the Google Earth Engine platform which offers immense cloud processing capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\" style=\"font-size:14px;margin: 0 auto\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1078\" style=\"width: 100px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-brasil.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/icon-02.png\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mapbiomas-br-site.s3.amazonaws.com\/pages\/icon_collectionLansat.svg\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mapbiomas-br-site.s3.amazonaws.com\/icon-02.svg\" alt=\"\"><br>BASADO EN IM\u00c1GENES LANDSAT<br>(Resolu\u00e7\u00e3o 30 MT)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1077\" style=\"width: 100px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-brasil.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/icon-10.png\" alt=\"\"><br><br>PROCESAMIENTO PIXEL POR PIXEL<br>(30 X 30 MT)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1076\" style=\"width: 100px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-brasil.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/icon-01.png\" alt=\"\"><br>PROCESAMIENTO BASADO EN LA NUBE.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>HOW WE ARE ORGANIZED<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Para realizar el mapeo, los equipos\u00a0 especialistas en teledetecci\u00f3n, ecolog\u00eda, sistemas de informaci\u00f3n geogr\u00e1fica y programaci\u00f3n se organizan en 6 equipos de trabajo; 5 corresponden a regiones: chaco y yungas, el bosque atl\u00e1ntico, pampa, puna, el monte y altos andes y patagonia que cubren la\u00a0 totalidad del territorio argentino. El sexto, es un grupo de trabajo transversal que mapea las \u00e1reas urbanas de todo el pa\u00eds. De forma tal que se cuenta con equipos id\u00f3neos y con conocimientos del terreno cubriendo la extensi\u00f3n y diversidad de paisajes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/03\/regiones-web-2-png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1130\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/03\/regiones-web-2-png.png 960w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/03\/regiones-web-2-png-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/03\/regiones-web-2-png-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2026\/03\/regiones-web-2-png-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>METHODOLOGY OVERVIEW<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The diagram below illustrates the main stages of the process for generating annual land cover and land use maps and transitions for MapBiomas Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/atbd-entienda-cada-etapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get to know step by step<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/atbd-entienda-cada-etapa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">u\u00ed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/atbd-entienda-cada-etapa\/\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"947\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/3-1_METHOD-MapBiomas-Figure.pptx-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/3-1_METHOD-MapBiomas-Figure.pptx-2.png 947w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/3-1_METHOD-MapBiomas-Figure.pptx-2-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/3-1_METHOD-MapBiomas-Figure.pptx-2-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/3-1_METHOD-MapBiomas-Figure.pptx-2-18x7.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abajo encontrar\u00e1 las principales caracter\u00edsticas metodol\u00f3gicas de MapBiomas Argentina para producir los mapas de cobertura y uso del suelo y transiciones entre los diferentes a\u00f1os. Puede acceder al ATBD (Documento Base de la Teor\u00eda del Algoritmo) con toda la descripci\u00f3n de la metodolog\u00eda y algoritmos accediendo a: MapBiomas Argentina Colecci\u00f3n 1 &#8211; ATBD MapBiomas Argentina [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":""},"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false,"infographic":false,"team":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Adriel Fernandes","author_link":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/author\/adriel-fernandes\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Abajo encontrar\u00e1 las principales caracter\u00edsticas metodol\u00f3gicas de MapBiomas Argentina para producir los mapas de cobertura y uso del suelo y transiciones entre los diferentes a\u00f1os. Puede acceder al ATBD (Documento Base de la Teor\u00eda del Algoritmo) con toda la descripci\u00f3n de la metodolog\u00eda y algoritmos accediendo a: MapBiomas Argentina Colecci\u00f3n 1 &#8211; ATBD MapBiomas Argentina&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}