The MAPBIOMAS project gathers data reporting the type of land covering each year by area, that is, for example, the area used for a temporary crop of soybeans. It also reports the transition between coverings during given years.
The data available has an yearly frequency and is available starting from the year 1989.
Options:
dataset:
"mapbiomas_cover": types of land cover"mapbiomas_transition": changes in land cover"mapbiomas_deforestation_regeneration": deforestation
and forest regeneration"mapbiomas_irrigation": irrigated areas"mapbiomas_grazing_quality": grazing quality"mapbiomas_mining": areas used for miningraw_data: there are two options:
TRUE: if you want the data as it is originally.FALSE: if you want the treated version of the
data.geo_level:
"mapbiomas_cover" and
"mapbiomas_transition", can be "municipality"
or "state" (faster download)."mapbiomas_mining", can be
"biome" or "indigenous_land".language: you can choose between Portuguese
("pt") and English ("eng")
cover_level: Aggregates the data to some level
of land coverage. Only applies to datasets
"mapbiomas_cover" and
"mapbiomas_grazing_quality":
cover_level = "none": no aggregationcover_level = 0: least aggregated, with categories of
Anthropic and Naturalcover_level = 1: categories such as Forest, Non Forest
Natural Formation, Farming, Non Vegetated Area, Water, Non Observedcover_level = 2: categories such as Agriculture,
Aquaculture, Beach and Dune, Forest Plantation, Pasture, River, Lake and
Oceancover_level = 3: categories such as Aquaculture, Beach
and Dune, Forest Formation, Forest Plantationcover_level = 4: categories such as Aquaculture, Beach
and Dune, Forest Formation, Forest PlantationExamples:
# download treated Mapbiomas Cover data in english at the highest aggregation level
data <- load_mapbiomas(dataset = "mapbiomas_cover",
raw_data = FALSE,
geo_level = "municipality",
language = "eng",
cover_level = 0)
# download treated Mapbiomas Transition data in portuguese
data <- load_mapbiomas(dataset = "mapbiomas_transition", raw_data = FALSE,
geo_level = "state", language = "pt")
# download treated data on mining on indigenous lands
data <- load_mapbiomas("mapbiomas_mining",
raw_data = FALSE,
geo_level = "indigenous_land")