MapBiomas Venezuela is an initiative co-created by Provita, the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (Raisg), the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling of the Simón Bolívar University (LSIGMA – USB) and Wataniba, in collaboration with specialists from different NGOs, universities and research centers in the country organized by themes and regions.
General Coordination of MapBiomas Venezuela (Land cover and land use):
Irene Zager (Provita)
Technical Coordination of MapBiomas Venezuela (Land cover and land use):
Rodrigo Lazo (Provita)
Technical co-coordination by physiographic regions and crosscutting themes (Land cover and land use):
- Central and Eastern Plains, Unare Depression and Barlovento Depression - Carlos González (LSIGMA-USB)
- Mangroves and wetlands in the Amazon - Emanuel Valero (Provita)
- Mining in the Amazon - María A. Oliveira (Wataniba)
Technical Coordination of MapBiomas Venezuela (water):
Tina Oliveira-Miranda (Wataniba)
Technical collaboration:
- Centro de Estudios de la Crisis Ambiental Global, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (CECAG - IVIC)
- Centro de Estudios Integrales del Ambiente, Universidad Central de Venezuela (CENAMB-UCV)
- Facultad de Agronomía (Núcleo Maracay), Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)
- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Universidad de Los Andes (ULA)
- Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia (LUZ)
- Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Guayana, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (CIEG-UNEG)
- Laboratório de Processamento de Imagens e Geoprocessamento (Lapig)
- Solved – Soluções em Geoinformação
Technology partners:
- EcoStage
Financing:
- Quadrature Climate Foundation
- Good Energies Foundation
- Skoll Foundation
- Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
- Rainforest Foundation Norway
- The Swift Foundation
- The Christensen Fund
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