Brazilian Secondary Forest Dynamics (1986–2024)

Annual maps of increment, extent, age, and loss of secondary forests in Brazil, derived from MapBiomas Collection 10.1 land-use and land-cover data using Google Earth Engine. The Forest Formation and Flooded Forest classes are included.

Products

Technical Specifications

GEE Assets

Multi-band assets (one band per year, named classification_YYYY) are publicly available:

1var age       = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_age_collection10_1_v8_1');
2var extent    = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_extent_collection10_1_v8_1');
3var increment = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_increment_collection10_1_v8_1');
4var loss      = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_loss_collection10_1_v8_1');
1var age       = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_age_collection10_1_v8_1');
2var extent    = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_extent_collection10_1_v8_1');
3var increment = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_increment_collection10_1_v8_1');
4var loss      = ee.Image('users/ybyrabr/public/secondary_forest_loss_collection10_1_v8_1');

Code & STAC

• GitHub: https://github.com/celsohlsj/gee_brazil_sv
• STAC Catalog: https://celsohlsj.github.io/ybyrastac/

Citation

1@article{silvajunior2020,
2  author  = {Silva-Junior, Celso H. L. and Heinrich, Viola H. A. and Freire, Ana T. G.
3             and Broggio, Igor S. and Rosan, Thais M. and Doblas, Juan and Anderson,
4             Liana O. and Rousseau, Guillaume X. and Shimabukuro, Yosio E. and
5             Silva, Carlos A. and House, Joanna I. and Aragão, Luiz E. O. C.},
6  title   = {Benchmark maps of 33 years of secondary forest age for {Brazil}},
7  journal = {Scientific Data},
8  year    = {2020},
9  doi     = {10.1038/s41597-020-00600-4}
10}
1@article{silvajunior2020,
2  author  = {Silva-Junior, Celso H. L. and Heinrich, Viola H. A. and Freire, Ana T. G.
3             and Broggio, Igor S. and Rosan, Thais M. and Doblas, Juan and Anderson,
4             Liana O. and Rousseau, Guillaume X. and Shimabukuro, Yosio E. and
5             Silva, Carlos A. and House, Joanna I. and Aragão, Luiz E. O. C.},
6  title   = {Benchmark maps of 33 years of secondary forest age for {Brazil}},
7  journal = {Scientific Data},
8  year    = {2020},
9  doi     = {10.1038/s41597-020-00600-4}
10}

Funding & License

Produced by the YBYRÁ-BR Project, funded by CNPq (Process 401741/2023-0). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.