---
title: "PRODES"
output: rmarkdown::html_vignette
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{PRODES}
%\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---
```{r, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>"
)
```
The PRODES project uses satellites to monitor deforestation in Brazil's Legal Amazon. The raw data reports total and incremental (year-by-year) low-cut deforested area at the municipality level, going back to the year 2000.
Data is collected based on the PRODES-year, which starts at August 1st and ends on July 31st. Accordingly, 2018 deforestation data covers the period from 01/08/2017 to 31/07/2018.
INPE's most recent data is now published at [TerraBrasilis](http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br/downloads/). We have refrained from updating to this new source, as it only contains detailed spatial data, rather than agregated, municipality-level data.
***
**Options:**
1. **dataset**: `"deforestation"`
2. **raw_data**: there are two options:
* `TRUE`: if you want the data as it is originally.
* `FALSE`: if you want the treated version of the data.
3. **language**: you can choose between Portuguese `("pt")` and English `("eng")`
***
**Examples:**
```{r,eval=FALSE}
# Download treated data (raw_data = FALSE)
# in portuguese (language = 'pt').
data <- load_prodes(
raw_data = FALSE,
language = "pt"
)
```