Brazil - Pasture deforestation
Years available: 2010-2023
Data last updated: 9 Oct 2025
Pasture deforestation is quantified as the total area of deforestation converted to pasture within a five-year allocation period. We calculate this by spatially overlapping annual pasture maps from MapBiomas with annual territorial deforestation data. This analysis identifies all deforestation that occurred within the five years prior to, and including, the year pasture was detected, yielding a cumulative estimate of deforestation linked to pasture land use. The territorial deforestation data is a composite dataset, integrating information from Prodes Amazon (INPE, 2025), Prodes Cerrado (INPE, 2025), and MapBiomas deforestation (MapBiomas, 2025; Souza et al., 2020) data for all other biomes.
- Prodes Amazon (INPE, 2025)
- Prodes Cerrado (INPE, 2025)
- Mapbiomas Collection 10 (MapBiomas, 2025; Souza et al., 2020)
- INPE. (2025). Prodes – Annual Monitoring of Native Vegetation Suppression – Amazon/Cerrado/Pantanal/Caatinga/Atlantic Forest/Pampa [Dataset]. https://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/downloads/
- MapBiomas. (2025). MapBiomas Project—Collection 10 of the Annual Land Use Land Cover Maps of Brazil [Dataset]. https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/
- Souza, C. M., Z. Shimbo, J., Rosa, M. R., Parente, L. L., A. Alencar, A., Rudorff, B. F. T., Hasenack, H., Matsumoto, M., G. Ferreira, L., Souza-Filho, P. W. M., De Oliveira, S. W., Rocha, W. F., Fonseca, A. V., Marques, C. B., Diniz, C. G., Costa, D., Monteiro, D., Rosa, E. R., Vélez-Martin, E., … Azevedo, T. (2020). Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine. Remote Sensing, 12(17), 2735. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12172735
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