MapBiomas is a global, multi-institutional network of universities, NGOs, and technology companies that monitors changes in land cover and land use\nacross territories and their impacts. Founded in Brazil, MapBiomas is currently present in 14 countries: all of South America and Indonesia. Based on open and collaborative science, the network relies on a platform that integrates satellite imagery, machine learning, and cloud computing. All data,\nmaps, methods, and codes are publicly available free of charge. The information generated by the MapBiomas network can be used by decision-makers, public policy makers, researchers from a wide range of fields, teachers and students, civil society organizations, and companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To unveil the transformations of Argentine territory through science, with precision, agility, and quality, making knowledge about our territory's land cover and land use accessible. We aim to enhance decision-making processes in areas such as conservation, sustainable natural resource management, and adaptation and mitigation to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MapBiomas originated in Brazil at a seminar held in March 2015 in S\u00e3o Paulo, where specialists in remote sensing and vegetation mapping were\ninvited by the Climate Observatory's Emissions and Removals Estimation System (SEEG) to discuss a fundamental question: how to produce\nannual land use and land cover maps for the whole of Brazil in a significantly cheaper, faster, and more up-to-date way compared to existing\nmethods and practices, as well as recovering the history of the last few decades? This would require unprecedented processing capacity, a high\ndegree of process automation, and the collaboration of a community of experts in each area. On this basis, technical cooperation was\nestablished with Google, using the Google Earth Engine platform as a basis, with training provided in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Argentina, MapBiomas began in 2017 with the mapping of the Gran Chaco Americano<\/a>, together with Bolivia and Paraguay. In 2019, mapping was extended to the regions of Atlantic Forest<\/a> and the Pampas<\/a>, with Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. In August 2023, the initiative was\nconsolidated at the national level, with the aim of understanding the transformation processes occurring throughout the territory using remote\nsensors, capitalizing on the experience of local groups in Argentina. MapBiomas Argentina represents a qualitative leap in the automation of\nprocesses and the generation and dissemination of spatially explicit information on the Argentine territory in an open, free, and accessible\nmanner. Its objective is to generate annual collections of land cover and land use maps for the entire country based on the local adaptation of the\nmethodology developed in Brazil. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MapBiomas es una red global y multiinstitucional, formada por universidades, ONG y empresas tecnol\u00f3gicas, que monitorea los cambios en la cobertura y el uso del suelo en los territorios y sus impactos. Nacido en Brasil, MapBiomas est\u00e1 presente actualmente en 14 pa\u00edses: toda Sudam\u00e9rica e Indonesia. Basada en la ciencia abierta y colaborativa, la red […]<\/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":"MapBiomas es una red global y multiinstitucional, formada por universidades, ONG y empresas tecnol\u00f3gicas, que monitorea los cambios en la cobertura y el uso del suelo en los territorios y sus impactos. Nacido en Brasil, MapBiomas est\u00e1 presente actualmente en 14 pa\u00edses: toda Sudam\u00e9rica e Indonesia. Basada en la ciencia abierta y colaborativa, la red…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/argentina.mapbiomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}