Visualization Overview

By default, layers viewed in Explorer are drawn in an order: the higher a layer is in this order, the higher (hence more visible) it will be in the map view. The table below presents this ordering and a brief description of the layers.

Order	Name	Description
1	Base Maps	Maps available through the Google API. These maps include: roadmap, satellite, hybrid and terrain.
2	Limits	Maps as geographic boundaries of the IBGE
3	External maps	Land use and land cover maps of well-known projects include PRODES, TerraClass IBGE and MapBiomas
4	Uploaded Layers	Layers imported by users through a url of the desired service.
5	Mosaics	Generated with BDC technologies to deal with big volumes of images and to select the best pixels (free of cloud and cloud shadow) obtained in one period
6	Grids	Tile Grids of satellites
7	Cubes	Multidimensional data cubes from analysis-ready data (ARD) of CBERS-4, CBERS-4A, Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellite images
8	Collections	Surface Reflectance orthorectified imagery from CBERS-4, CBERS-4A, Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellites |
9	Classifications	Classified land use and land cover maps generated automatically with artificial intelligence algorithms
10	Wlts Plot	Layers used to extract information in the land use and land cover trajectory service.
11	Geometry	User-drawn geometries
12	Google Label	Google map with satellite view, labeled with alphabetical characters.