The legend codes that appear in the MapBiomas Colombia Collection 1 raster files are available at:
LEGEND CODES - COLLECTION 1.0
LEGEND DESCRIPTION FOR EACH NATIONAL BIOME AND CLASS
From the Landsat mosaics the classifications that result in the thematic maps of land cover and land use for each year are obtained. Within the logic proposed by MapBiomas Colombia, the maps will be updated every time there is an improvement in the classification algorithms. The classification methodology is dynamic, in order to improve the classification of each typology.
Here you can access the annual land cover and land use maps of Colombia organized by country, chart (1:250,000) and by year.
Important: when composing a single mosaic or calculating statistics on the maps you must take into consideration that:
- For area calculation, it is necessary to use an adequate metric projection.
- All data is in GeoTiff format and has LZW compression.
- To obtain the reference of the codes with the classes access: Legend Code
- The RGB color palette for each legend class is available in this file, and also for use in ArcMap (Level 1 and Level 2) and QGIS en (Level 1 and Level 2)
- The annual maps are consolidated in a single file with several bands, where each band represents a year of the historical series (the 1st band corresponds to the first year of the series).
- The international limits used by MapBiomas are those used by RAISG and may differ from files from other sources. The international boundary file used is available for download in the reference maps section.
The most current MapBiomas collection can be accessed in the following ways:
1. Online navigation through the MapBiomas data platform: https://plataforma.colombia.mapbiomas.org
2. Direct download of the Land Cover and Land Use maps from Collection 1 in GeoTiff format (one map for each year).
- For the year 2022:
For other years, simply change the year at the end of the link. Available from 1985 to 2022
3. Download by country, biome and any other desired geometry using the Toolkit prepared in Google Earth Engine (GEE): mapbiomas-user-toolkit-lulc
4. Download by country and any other desired geometry using Toolkits prepared in Google Earth Engine (GEE): mapbiomas-user-toolkit
*To use this tool it is necessary to have an account on the Google Earth Engine (free).