The 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award, held in partnership with the Instituto Ciência Hoje received 163 entries from 7 countries. With the aim of encourage applications and works that use data from any MapBiomas initiative, module or product, 8 were awarded works, with a total prize pool of R$80,000, in addition to three mentions honorable.
In this edition, in addition to the categories General, Youth, Featured Applications in Public Policy and Business, two new categories were launched: Applications in Schools and Actions to Combat Deforestation.
Subscribers quoted or used data from the Network's initiatives MapBiomas: MapBiomas Brasil, MapBiomas Amazônia, Chaco, Bosque Atlantic, South American Pampa and Indonesia.
To understand a little more about the initiatives, visit: https://brasil.mapbiomas.org/iniciativas-mapbiomas
- General" Category: Works regardless of age and level of education;
- "Young" Category: Papers whose author(s) are up to 30 years old and have not completed studies until the end of 2023;
- Category "Outstanding Applications in Public Policy": regardless of age and level of education.
- New category "Outstanding applications in Business": regardless of age and educational level.
LAUNCH WEBINAR
Meet the winners of the MapBiomas Award of the 4th edition that was held to present the news on how to use the new data and modules of the MapBiomas platforms. See below how it went or click here to watch it directly on our YouTube channel.
MapBiomas: Applications that reveal the transformations of MapBiomas Network data use