The 5 changes in land use and cover in the Caatinga in the last decades

Abstract

A study coordinated by the MapBiomas project highlighted changes in land use and cover in the Caatinga in the period 1985-2020. To carry out the study, around 150,000 images from Landsat satellites were analyzed , with a resolution of 30 meters, available over a period of 35 years. Annual information was collected on twenty-five land use and land cover classes in the biome. In this post, we will highlight the main results of the study, which mapped the changes in the land cover of the Caatinga , in the last decades.