Uso e cobertura da terra: Entre a cana e a cidade, ilhas de mata

Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura

doi:10.5281/zenodo.23539003

No. 032 Land use Campinas Metropolitan Region 1/4

Land use and land cover

Between cane and city, islands of forest

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Map of the 20 municipalities of the Campinas Metropolitan Region, in transverse Mercator projection, covered pixel by pixel by the MapBiomas 2024 classification. The dark grey of urban areas forms a continuous axis from Americana and Santa Bárbara d'Oeste to Campinas, Valinhos and Vinhedo, with another patch at Indaiatuba. The ochre of sugarcane dominates the west; the cream of the mosaic of uses and the straw yellow of pasture cover the east, dotted with the dark green of forest in Morungaba, Itatiba and Pedreira. A callout points to the largest forest fragment, 8.6 km², in Itatiba. In the panel, a strip splits the region’s area into the ten classes, and bars show the urban share of six municipalities. — Fig. 032 Campinas Metropolitan Region (SP) EPSG:4674 Source: MapBiomas, IBGE

The grey patch of the city already covers 21.1% of the 3,791 km² of the Campinas Metropolitan Region, and 72.6% of Hortolândia. To the west, sugarcane takes half of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste (49.3%) and 39.7% of Cosmópolis. To the east, in the hills of Morungaba, Itatiba and Pedreira, the forest holds out in islands: 7,743 forest fragments, only 31 of them larger than 1 km². The largest, in Itatiba, covers 8.6 km². The most common class is none of these but the mosaic of uses (29.3%): pastures, small fields and country plots that the satellite cannot tell apart at 30 m. First plate of the collection “Campinas Metropolitan Region”.

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cobertura_2024 raster GeoTIFF of the 2024 classification clipped to the region, with the original MapBiomas codes and the plate’s palette in a .qml style
municipios polygon 20 municipalities: area and km² and % of each of the ten classes
limite_rmc polygon Outline of the region

Metadata

Sources: MapBiomas — Collection 10 of the annual land cover and land use maps of Brazil (2024)
IBGE — Municipal Mesh 2025 (2025)
Extent: Campinas Metropolitan Region (SP)
CRS / Projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674)
EPSG:4674
Software: Python · rasterio · GeoPandas · SciPy · GDAL · QGIS · Node.js · d3-geo
Method: MapBiomas Collection 10 classification for 2024, 30 m pixels, grouped into ten classes; each pixel’s area measured on the ellipsoid and summed for the region and for each municipality.
Version: v1.0.0
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23539003

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Cerejo, L. N. (2026). Uso e cobertura da terra: entre a cana e a cidade, ilhas de mata [Land use and land cover: Between cane and city, islands of forest] (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23539003

@dataset{cerejo2026_uso_da_terra_rmc,
  author    = {Cerejo, Lucas Nakamura},
  title     = {Uso e cobertura da terra: Entre a cana e a cidade, ilhas de mata},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.23539003},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23539003},
  language  = {portuguese},
  note      = {English title: Land use and land cover: Between cane and city, islands of forest. Licence CC BY 4.0}
}

How to read this plate area, projection, scale, legend and source · 3 terms

1 Area: Campinas Metropolitan Region (SP) The area the plate covers. Outside it, neighbours and sea are drawn in grey, just for orientation.
2 Coordinates and projection: SIRGAS 2000 (EPSG:4674) Drawn in transverse Mercator, which preserves local shapes. The layers are in SIRGAS 2000; the drawing’s projection is written in the colophon at the foot of the panel.
3 Scale: Graphic scale bar in the panel The scale bar is true on the central meridian; away from it, measured distances vary a little.
4 Legend and layers: 3 layers in the GeoPackage · raster, polygon Read the legend before the map: it tells you whether a colour is a rate or a class, and whether a circle is a total.
5 Sources: MapBiomas (2024); IBGE (2025) Every figure comes from a public source, with its year. The data sheet gives each one’s address.

Terms on this plate

Cane straw: Tops and leaves left in the field by mechanised harvesting since cane burning ended. Some can be collected for energy; some must stay to protect the soil.
Land cover and land use: What covers each patch of ground (forest, pasture, soy, cane, water, town), read from satellite images year by year. The forty-year plates use MapBiomas’ series, 1985 to 2025, summed by municipality.
MapBiomas: A network of universities, NGOs and companies that classifies land cover across all of Brazil from Landsat images, one map a year since 1985, as open data.

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Method notes · No. 032

Land use and land cover in the Campinas Metropolitan Region, 2024

Português · English

Plate No. 032, the first of four in the collection Campinas Metropolitan Region: the ground of its 20 municipalities, seen from the satellite. The next plates count households, income and the banks of the rivers.

What the files contain

File / layer	Geometry	Contents
`rmc_uso_cobertura_2024.tif`	raster	2024 classification, 30 m pixels, clipped to the region, with the MapBiomas legend codes (0 = outside the region)
`municipios` (GPKG)	polygon	20 municipalities: `CD_MUN`, `NM_MUN`, `area_km2` and, for each class, `km2_<class>` and `pct_<class>`
`limite_rmc` (GPKG)	polygon	outline of the region

The GPKG and the GeoTIFF are zipped and attached to the rmc-2026 release. The municipios layer carries two QGIS styles: urbano (the default, each municipality’s urban share) and floresta. The GeoTIFF’s ZIP includes a .qml style with the plate’s palette and the name of each code; open the .tif in QGIS with the .qml in the same folder.

The CSV holds the table of the 20 municipalities in UTF-8, without geometry.

Method

MapBiomas Collection 10 land cover and land use map for 2024, read only within the region’s window, in SIRGAS 2000, with 0.00027° pixels (about 30 m).
The MapBiomas legend classes become ten classes on the plate: forest (including savanna formation), grassland and wetland, tree plantation, pasture, mosaic of uses, sugarcane, soy and other crops (annual and perennial), urban area, water, and mining with other non-vegetated areas.
Each pixel counts with its true area on the GRS80 ellipsoid, computed row by row (a pixel in degrees shrinks with latitude). Pixels are assigned to municipalities by their centre.
Forest fragments: forest and savanna pixels joined to one another, corners included (eight neighbours), within the region.
The plate draws the grid resampled into the map projection; the municipal boundaries go on top, as vectors.

Limitations

MapBiomas classifies 30 m Landsat imagery: country plots, back gardens and narrow riparian strips blend together, and much of this falls into the mosaic of uses, the region’s largest class.
MapBiomas urban area is the built-up patch seen from the satellite, not the urban perimeter set by municipal law.
A forest fragment may continue across the region’s boundary; here it is measured only inside.
The sum of pixel areas (3,790.7 km²) differs slightly from the official area of the municipalities, because of the pixelated edge.

View this map’s folder on GitHub