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Hundreds of schools in São Paulo have planted mini-forests thanks to these maps

Name: Hundreds of schools in São Paulo have planted mini-forests thanks to these maps
Uploaded: 2023-11-08T11:41:23Z
Duration: 2 min 16 s
Description: MapBiomas creates highly detailed land-use maps of Brazil. It processes satellite images using Google Earth’s powerful algorithms to divide Brazil into 9.6 billion squares each measuring 30m by 30m. Formigas-de-embaúba is a Brazilian NGO that creates mini-forests in public schools using MapBiomas’ technology while educating a new generation of conservationists.

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