Map of Forest or Deforested Areas in Legal Amazon's Municipalities
In our map, select the variable of interest - forest, non-forest, deforested area, deforestation increment and hydrography. You can also choose these variables as proportion of each municipality's area. Press play to see how the map changes throughout the years.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE DATABASE USED IN THIS VISUALIZATION
Data collected from the National Institute of Space Research (INPE).
The PRODES project uses satellites to monitor deforestation in the Brazilian Amazônia Legal. The raw data reports the deforested area with total clearcutting and incremental year by year at the municipal level.
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Attention: This visualization is fed by data processed through the
datazoom.amazonia package in R (datasus_sim_do() function) and is subject to error due to changes in external sources. If the user identifies any discrepancy in information, we request that you report it in
GitHub Issues.