MAPBIOMAS CHILE

MapBiomas Chile is an initiative that brings together experts in satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems and programming from NGOs, universities and research centers, who work collaboratively to generate and share, publicly and free of charge, accurate and updated information on the transformation of Venezuelan territory. 

La Primera Colección de Mapas Anuales de Cobertura y Uso del Suelo de Venezuela (2000 – 2022) fue presentada el 23 de abril de 2024  durante el evento online “MapBiomas Chile: Revelando la dinámica de un paisaje cambiante”. Este producto inédito es una co-creación del Laboratorio GEP (U. de Chile), laboratorio LEP (U. de Concepción), laboratorio LEPCON (U. de la Frontera), Universidad de Magallanes y WWF Chile.  

1er LANZAMIENTO DE MAPBIOMAS CHILE– COLECCIÓN 1

ABOUT THE CHILEAN MAPBIOMAS PLATFORM

The MapBiomas Chile platform is a tool that allows anyone with Internet access to visualize and consult the changes in land cover and use of the Chilean territory, as well as the pressures on natural ecosystems. The information generated covers all the states of the country, allowing the 13 classes of the legend to be quantified, which include areas of forests, shrublands, grasslands, agricultural uses, urban areas and bodies of water, among others. The information is free and available for download.

The platform allows you to explore the collection of annual maps, which cover the period between 2000 and 2022, and identify changes in land coverage and use at the national, regional, provincial or communal level and in a given period (year, five-year period, decades, etc.). The tool also shows statistics in dynamic tables and graphs, with the changes in use in the period that the user requires, and allows understanding the dynamics of changes that can be consulted from different spatial units, which, in addition to the political-administrative division , allows using units from the National System of Protected Wild Areas, hydrographic basins and eco-regions.