WHAT IS THE MAPBIOMAS BOLIVIA INITIATIVE?

The "Annual Land Cover and Use Mapping in Bolivia" Project is an initiative that involves a collaborative network of specialists in remote sensing, GIS, and programming experts. It uses cloud processing and automated classifiers developed and operated from the Google Earth Engine platform to generate a historical series of annual land cover and use maps of Bolivia.

ORIGIN

The Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), is a member of the Amazonian Network of Red Amazónica de Información Socioambiental Georreferenciada (RAISG), where this type of information is generated in a coordinated manner with other countries in the basin to achieve the same objectives. Since 2009, as part of the work with RAISG, the construction of deforestation maps of the Bolivian Amazon using increasingly advanced satellite data processing tools began. In search of new alternatives for process automation and timely information generation, in March 2017, RAISG, in agreement with the General Coordination of MapBiomas Network, created the MapBiomas Amazonia initiative, of which FAN is a member. As part of the work with RAISG and MapBiomas, FAN has achieved the First Collection of Annual Land Cover and Use Maps for the entire Bolivian territory for the period 1985-2021. Thanks to this collaborative effort, these maps will be available on an interactive platform for the MapBiomas Bolivia initiative.
Como parte del trabajo con la RAISG y MapBiomas, FAN ha logrado la Primera Colección de Mapas Anuales de Cobertura y Uso del Suelo para todo el territorio boliviano para el periodo 1985 – 2021. Gracias a este esfuerzo colaborativo será posible contar con estos mapas en una plataforma interactiva para la iniciativa de MapBiomas Bolivia.

PURPOSE

To contribute to the understanding of land use dynamics in Bolivia based on the development and implementation of a fast, reliable, and low-cost methodology to generate annual maps of land cover and land use from 1985 to the present (and updated annually thereafter).
Creation of a web platform to facilitate the dissemination of the methodology and access to results: Products and Sub-products.
Establishment of a collaborative network of specialists in the countries for mapping land cover and land use and change dynamics.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INITIATIVE

Network collaboration with the responsible institutions of different countries.
Distributed and automated data processing through an alliance with Google Earth Engine.
Work aimed at generating an open and replicable platform.
Collaborative platform designed to incorporate and welcome contributions from the scientific community interested in collaborating.