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01c — Data download: MapBiomas Colombia Collection 3 and ESA CCI 2012

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Inputs of the MapBiomas label experiments (02d, 03f).

  • MapBiomas Colombia Collection 3, annual land cover 1985–2024 (CC BY 4.0; cite “Proyecto MapBiomas Colombia – Colección 3 de la serie anual de mapas de cobertura y uso del suelo de Colombia”). These are public Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFFs in the mapbiomas-public Google Cloud Storage bucket (no login): one 63,923 × 68,191 Byte raster per year on a 0.000269494585° grid, NoData 0. All 40 years are downloaded (about 4.5 GB) and checked against the md5 that GCS publishes, because the label rule needs the whole time series at 12 M points spread over the country. That reads every block of every file anyway, so it is cheaper to read them locally once. The download stops if free disk space would fall below 10 GB.

  • ESA CCI Land Cover v2.0.7, 2012: the Colombia window, as in 01b. It is the land-cover predictor of the forward test.

  • Method documents: the MapBiomas Colombia C3 general appendix and the C3 vegetation-loss / secondary-vegetation module appendix. The module appendix’s live URL returns 404; the 2026-05-14 Wayback Machine snapshot is used.

Smoke mode (SMOKE=1): nothing is downloaded from MapBiomas, because 02d then reads the smoke window remotely. The source log is data/raw/sources_mapbiomas_smoke.json.

1. MapBiomas Colombia Collection 3 annual coverage, 1985–2024

40 of 40 MapBiomas years local; free disk 18.0 GB
{'width': 63923, 'height': 68191, 'transform': [0.0002694945852358564, 0.0, -83.943790376776, 0.0, -0.0002694945852358564, 14.01479641060548], 'nodata': 0.0, 'crs': 'EPSG:4326'}

2. ESA CCI Land Cover 2012 (Colombia window, as in 01b)

3. Method documents

wrote ../data/raw/sources_mapbiomas.json