Benchmark map of deforestation for Amazonia

Title: Benchmark map of deforestation for Amazonia

Contact: Celso H. L. Silva-Junior (celsohlsj@gmail.com)

Data: Old-growth forest deforestation

Coverage: Amazonia

Period: 1986 to onwards (according to new MapBiomas project collections)

Spatial resolution: 30-meters

Temporal resolution: Annual

Coordinate reference system: Geographic Coordinate System with Datum WGS-84

File format: The zip file contains nine tiles in compressed TIFF format. The pixel values represent the year of deforestation.

Code: https://github.com/celsohlsj/amazonia_deforestation

Dataset usage: It is free to use, but if you use this dataset in your work, please cite the repository and our paper correctly. We also welcome users to invite us for collaboration.

Associated publication: 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

For this dataset, please use 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