DOWNLOAD LAND USE AND LAND COVER MAPS

The land use and land cover maps from Collection 2.0 can be accessed in the following ways:

1. by navigating online on the MapBiomas Peru map and data platform: https://plataforma.peru.mapbiomas.org/agua 

2. assets from Google Earth Engine with the following path: projects/mapbiomas-public/assets/peru/collection2/mapbiomas_peru_collection2_integration_v1

3. Downloading directly in GeoTiff format (one map for each year) using the following URL format indicating the year you want to download. 

For example, for the year 2022 use: https://storage.googleapis.com/mapbiomas-public/initiatives/peru/collection_2/coverage/peru_coverage_2022.tif 

For other years, simply change the year at the end of the link. Available from 1985 to 2022.

4. Downloading by biome, department, province, district and any other desired geometry using the Toolkit prepared in Google Earth Engine (GEE). Watch the  tutorial video to discover how to use the toolkit.

*To use this toolkit it is necessary to have an account for Google Earth Engine (free)

Important:

• All data are in GeoTiff format and have LZW compression. 

• The legend codes can be found in Código de la Leyenda 2.0
• The RGB color palette of the legend is available for ArcMap (Nivel 1 e Nivel 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 boundaries used by MapBiomas Peru are those elaborated by IBC in coordination with RAISG and may present differences with files from other national sources.

WATER SURFACE MAPS

The most current MapBiomas Water maps can be accessed in the following ways:

1. by navigating online on the MapBiomas Peru map and data platform:https://plataforma.peru.mapbiomas.org/agua 

2. Using the Toolkit prepared in Google Earth Engine (GEE).