Brazil - Deforestation
Years available: 2008-2024
Data last updated: 13 Aug 2025
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. Deforestation is defined as the conversion of primary native vegetation.
Brazil - Deforestation (biome)
Brazil - Deforestation (country)
Brazil - Deforestation (municipality)
Brazil - Deforestation (state)
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Sources
- Prodes Amazon (INPE, 2025)
- Prodes Cerrado (INPE, 2025)
- Mapbiomas collection 10 (MapBiomas, 2025; Souza et al., 2020)
References
- 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
DOI Citation
To cite this dataset, use the following format
Lathuillière, M. J., Suavet, C., Biddle, H., Su, N., Prada Moro, Y., Carvalho, T., & Ribeiro, V. (2022). Brazil soy supply chain (2004-2020) (Version 2.6) [Data set]. Trase. https://doi.org/10.48650/DCE3-JJ97
