Annual monitoring of the cultivation of sugarcane in the following classes: ratoon, expansion, under renovation (18 months) and renovated (18 months).

The South-Central region of Brazil is currently responsible for 88% of the sugarcane production in Brazil. Annual information is available for the following states and crop years:

• States of Goiás (GO), Minas Gerais (MG), Mato Grosso (MT), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), Paraná (PR) and São Paulo (SP): crop year from 2003/04 to 2013/14;
• States of Espírito Santo (ES) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ): crop year from 2010/11 to 2012/13.

Maps and graphs, and also tables of the cultivated sugarcane area by municipalities and by states for the entire South-Central region of Brazil.

The mapping procedure is carried out once a year using free of cost remote sensing images available at INPE/DGI and acquired by the Landsat, CBERS and Resourcesat-I satellites.
The image processing and interpretation is performed using the SPRING software. More detailed information about the Canasat-Area Project can be obtained in the article Studies on the Rapid Expansion of Sugarcane for Ethanol Production in São Paulo State (Brazil) Using Landsat Data and also in other publications.

São Paulo State crop year from 2006/07 to 2012/13.

Maps, graphs and tables of the type of sugarcane harvest by municipality and by Administrative Region of São Paulo State.

The mapping of the sugarcane harvest type is carried out yearly and is based on both the annual sugarcane maps of the Canasat Project Canasat Project), and the remote sensing images from the Landsat-5 satellite and alternatively from Landsat-7, CBERS-2 and Resourcesat-I satellites, that are freely available at INPE/DGI. The image processing and interpretation are carried out using the SPRING software. More detailed information about the Canasat-Harvest Project can be found in: Remote Sensing Images in Support of Environmental Protocol: Monitoring the Sugarcane Harvest in São Paulo State, Brazil and also in other publications.

The São Paulo State Law 11.241 establishes the extinction of the pre-harvest straw burning practice by the year 2021 for most of the sugarcane cultivated areas in São Paulo State. The Green Ethanol Protocol is an initiative of both the State government and the sugarcane sector to anticipate the end of the pre-harvest burning practice to the year 2014. It also foresees the annual concession of a certificate of conformity to producers that adopt best practice management.