Land use and land cover data for Northern Coast of São Paulo State (Brazil) from 1985 to 2015

Authors: Ana Beatriz Pierri Daunt and Thiago Sanna Freire Silva

Product: Land use and land cover maps for 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 in raster format.

Study area: Northern Coast of São Paulo State (Brazil)

Mapping methods: Land use and land cover were mapped using Landsat images and geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), based on the Random Forests supervised algorithm processing using the “RSGISlib” library, accessible through the Python language. More information at https://www.rsgislib.org. The automated classification was followed by manual correction of the land cover maps at the 1:25.000 scale. See Metadata.docx for more details and land use/cover description,

Financial informations: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, and by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), fellowship #163870/2018-7, through the Geography Graduate Program, São Paulo State University. T.S.F. Silva acknowledges research productivity grant #310144/2015-9 from CNPq.