INPE Prodes Carto

This is the TileMill project for data provided by INPE Prodes. This information is used in InfoAmazonia to show deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest after 2005.

Layers

3D Global Vegetation Map

• Website: landscape.jpl.nasa.gov
• Source: JPL-NASA
• License: Public domain
• Download:
  • 1km resolution, TIF, 67MB
  • 10km resolution, KMZ, 1MB

PRODES

• Description: Deforestation data from INPE Prodes
• Website: www.obt.inpe.br/prodes
• Project presentation in PDF
• Source: [INPE]

Map install

Copy or clone this repository locally and run:

./install.sh

This will download map data and symlink to TileMill.

If there is a broken link or any other problem, please open an issue.

Preparing map data

Scripts

scripts/download.sh: Download zipped shapefiles of deforestation polygons for the Amazon region from Prodes mosaic folder. The files will be saved at data/prodes/mosaics-amz-shp.

Requirements

• wget
• Python
• GDAL
• Spatialite

At your repository, run:

./generate.sh

Be patient, this is take a while.

When it finishes, a Spatialite file will be available at data folder.

Other information

Source files are available here:

http://www.dpi.inpe.br/prodesdigital/dadosn/mosaicos

If you only need the data, it can be dowloaded here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3291375/ecolab/prodes.sqlite.zip

QGIS supports trannsforation of Spatilite files to Shapefiles.