Land use and land cover maps of the municipality of Buritizeiro, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, for 2018 and 2022, and the corresponding farmland abandonment map (2018-2022)

The land use and land cover (LULC) map of the municipality of Buritizeiro, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, for 2018 was produced from a Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imager (MSI) satellite image acquired on 15 August 2018 and processed by the Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN) deep learning classifier. Training, test, and validation data were obtained during a field campaign conducted in June and August 2023, complemented by visual inspection of high-resolution satellite images available in the Google Earth platform. The 2022 LULC map was generated following the same procedure, using the Sentinel-2 image acquired on 19 August 2022. The abandoned farmland map for the period 2018–2022 was derived by selecting agricultural areas mapped in 2018 (annual croplands, cultivated pastures, eucalyptus plantations, and harvested eucalyptus) that were reclassified as grasslands or shrublands in 2022.