Here are the maps used as reference by MapBiomas Venezuela Collection 2 to train classification algorithms or to evaluate the quality of the automatic classification of the project. These references come from various organizations and have a varied temporal and geographical scope.
| Map / Product | Source / Author | Description | Download link |
| Mapa de Vegetación de Venezuela | Huber O, Alarcón C (1988) Mapa de Vegetación de Venezuela. Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales Renovables. TheNature Conservance. | Vegetation Map of Venezuela at a scale of 1:2,000,000 | |
| Guayana Venezolana: Mapa de Vegetación | Huber, O. & T Rodriguez. 1995. Mapa de vegetación de la Guayana venezolana. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela (FIBV), Caracas. | Vegetation Map of Venezuelan Guyana, at a scale of 1:2,000,000 | |
| Mapa de Vegetación de Venezuela | MARN (2003) Mapa de Vegetación de Venezuela 1:2.000.000. Ministerio del Ambiente y de los Recursos Naturales (MARN), Instituto Geográfico de Venezuela Simón Bolívar; Caracas. | Vegetation Map of Venezuela at a scale of 1:2,000,000 | |
| Mapa digital de los ecosistemas terrestres de Venezuela | Huber, O. y M.A. Oliveira-Miranda. (2010). Ambientes terrestres. Pp: 29-89. En: J.P. Rodríguez, F. Rojas-Suárez & D. Giraldo Hernández (eds.). Libro Rojo de los Ecosistemas Terrestres de Venezuela. Provita, Shell Venezuela, Lenovo (Venezuela). Caracas:Venezuela. | Digital map of the terrestrial ecosystems of Venezuela in shapefile format | Access |
| Mapa de Ecosistemas de Venezuela | MPPAMB (2014). Mapa de Ecosistemas de Venezuela. 1: 2.000.000. Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Ambiente; Caracas. | Ecosystem Map of Venezuela at a scale of 1:2,000,000 | |
| An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm | An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, Anup Joshi, Carly Vynne, Neil D. Burgess, Eric Wikramanayake, Nathan Hahn, Suzanne Palminteri, Prashant Hedao, Reed Noss … Show more BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix014 Published: 05 April 2017 | Digital map of biomes and ecoregions in shapefile format | Access |
| Global Surface Water 1984-2021 | Jean-Francois Pekel, Andrew Cottam, Noel Gorelick, Alan S. Belward, High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature 540, 418-422 (2016). (doi:10.1038/nature20584) | Global digital map of surface water presence, 1984-2021. Raster format, pixel 30 m | Access |
| Global Forest Canopy Height, 2019 | P. Potapov, X. Li, A. Hernandez-Serna, A. Tyukavina, M.C. Hansen, A. Kommareddy, A. Pickens, S. Turubanova, H. Tang, C.E. Silva, J. Armston, R. Dubayah, J. B. Blair, M. Hofton (2020) Mapping and monitoring global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 112165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112165 | Global digital canopy height map, 1984-2021. Raster format, pixel 30 m | Access |
| World Settlement Footprint (WSF) 2019 – Sentinel-1/2 – Global | Understanding Current Trends in Global Urbanisation – The World Settlement Footprint Suite. Mattia Marconcini, Annekatrin Metz- Marconcini, Thomas Esch and Noel Gorelick. GI_Forum 2021, Issue 1 Page: 33 – 38 Research Paper DOI: 10.1553/giscience2021_01_s33 | Global digital map of human settlements, 2019. Generated with Sentinel-2. Raster format, pixel 10 m | Access |
| ESRI 10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (2017-2022) | Karra, Kontgis, et al. “Global land use/land cover with Sentinel-2 and deep learning.” IGARSS 2021-2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2021. | Land cover and use map with pixel at 10 m, 2017-2022. raster format | Access |
| ESA WorldCover 2020 v100 | Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., De Keersmaecker, W., Souverijns, N., Brockmann, C., Quast, R., Wevers, J., Grosu, A., Paccini, A., Vergnaud, S., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Georgieva, I., Lesiv, M., Carter, S., Herold, M., Li, Linlin, Tsendbazar, N.E., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2021. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2020 v100. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5571936 | Land cover and use map with pixel at 10 m, 2020. Raster format | Access |
| ESA WorldCover 2021 v200 | Zanaga, D., Van De Kerchove, R., Daems, D., De Keersmaecker, W., Brockmann, C., Kirches, G., Wevers, J., Cartus, O., Santoro, M., Fritz, S., Lesiv, M., Herold, M., Tsendbazar, N.E., Xu, P., Ramoino, F., Arino, O., 2022. ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7254221 | Land cover and use map with pixel at 10 m, 2021. Raster format, pixel 10 m | Access |