DETER uses satellite surveillance to detect and report changes in forest cover across the Legal Amazon and the Cerrado biome. Each data point consists of a warning, describing which type of change has affected a certain area of forest at a given date. Broadly speaking, it makes a distinction between events of deforestation, degradation and logging. The data extracted here spans from 2016 onward in the Amazon, and from 2018 onward in the Cerrado.
library(datazoom.amazonia)
# Download raw data (raw_data = TRUE) from Amazonia (dataset = "deter_amz")
deter_amz <- load_deter(dataset = 'deter_amz',
raw_data = TRUE)
# Download treated data (raw_data = FALSE) from Cerrado (dataset = "deter_cerrado")
# in portuguese (language = 'pt')
deter_cer <- load_deter(dataset = 'deter_cerrado',
raw_data = FALSE,
language = "pt")