{"id":"AIBD-1120","title":"Santa Catarina's Court of Justice upheld police enforcement in 15 decisions on Atlantic Forest clearing first flagged by MapBiomas Alerta","summary":"Santa Catarina's Court of Justice upheld police enforcement in 15 decisions from 2023 to 2025 on Atlantic Forest clearing that MapBiomas alerts had flagged. None rejected the satellite evidence.","date_observed":"2025-07-29","date_basis":"source publication","date_precision":"day","benefit_status":"reported","source_collection":null,"source_entry":null,"account":"From August 2023 to September 2025, Santa Catarina's Court of Justice decided 15 appeals in cases begun by MapBiomas Alerta deforestation alerts. The state's military environmental police received the alerts, mostly in the yearly Operação Mata Atlântica em Pé. Officers inspected the alerts on site and found clearings of 0.99 to 11.05 hectares of Atlantic Forest. In 13 criminal appeals, the court upheld 11 convictions and convicted two defendants whom trial judges had acquitted. It reduced two of the upheld penalties. In two civil cases, it upheld a restoration order with R$37,000 in collective moral damages and refused to annul infraction notices. No decision rejected the satellite evidence. One officer testified that the damage flagged by a MapBiomas alert was confirmed on site. In another case, the court dated the clearing from the images behind an alert and called them “dotados de precisão técnica”, technically precise. MapBiomas says that analysts validate each alert and refine its outline with a Random Forest classifier, which the court did not examine. Officers reported alerts that missed one cleared area, understated another and included older clearing.","category":"protective response","unexpected":false,"purpose":"MapBiomas built MapBiomas Alerta to compile, validate and refine deforestation alerts from detection systems across Brazil and to publish each confirmed clearing with a report.","system":"MapBiomas Alerta (the decisions call it 'MapBiomas', 'Mapa Biomas' or 'MapBiomas Alerta')","model_version":null,"developer":"MapBiomas (MapBiomas Alerta), which compiles source alerts from other detection systems","deployer":"Polícia Militar Ambiental de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina's military environmental police), mostly in the yearly Operação Mata Atlântica em Pé with the Ministério Público de Santa Catarina","location":"Santa Catarina, Brazil (rural properties in Canoinhas, Mafra, Rio Negrinho, Santa Cecília, Lebon Régis and other municipalities)","domain":"Environmental enforcement: Atlantic Forest clearing","segment":null,"benefit_type":"Improved Environmental Sustainability","work_activities":["4.A.1.b.1","4.A.1.a.2"],"taxonomy_note":"The decisions document enforcement against illegal clearing. They do not show whether any forest was restored.","registry_ids":{},"ratings":[{"group":"organizational","depth":2,"reason":"Alerts led police patrols to cleared areas of 0.99 to 11.05 hectares, and the court decided for the enforcement in all 15 appeals."},{"group":"societal","depth":null,"reason":"The decisions record convictions, a restoration order and infraction notices, but none reports whether forest grew back or whether clearing fell."}],"ai_role":{"status":"unassessed","statement":"The decisions do not describe how the alerts are made, and none compares enforcement with and without them. MapBiomas's method page says that it compiles alerts from other detection systems, including SAD Mata Atlântica of SOS Mata Atlântica and ArcPlan. It says that trained analysts check each alert visually on Planet and Sentinel-2 images. It adds that a supervised Random Forest classifier in Google Earth Engine then refines the outline of each confirmed clearing. That refinement is the machine-learning step that MapBiomas documents. One officer named SOS Mata Atlântica as the source of an alert. The decisions do not show which version of the method applied to alerts from 2019 to 2023. Where the decisions describe the inspections, officers checked each alert on site before they acted."},"evidence":[{"kind":"court document","citation":"Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (TJSC), 3ª Câmara Criminal. Apelação Criminal nº 5000081-75.2022.8.24.0056 (Santa Cecília), Rel. Des. Subst. Claudio Eduardo Regis de Figueiredo e Silva. Judgment of 29 July 2025. Appeal partly granted: convictions for destroying forest upheld, acquittal on a separate count of cutting hardwood and a lighter sentence.","title":"Apelação Criminal nº 5000081-75.2022.8.24.0056 (Santa Cecília), Rel. Des. Subst. 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Apelação Criminal nº 5000082-60.2022.8.24.0056 (Santa Cecília), Rel. Des. Alexandre d'Ivanenko. Judgment of 14 November 2024. Appeal denied and conviction upheld.","title":"Apelação Criminal nº 5000082-60.2022.8.24.0056 (Santa Cecília), Rel. Des. Alexandre d'Ivanenko","url":"https://busca.tjsc.jus.br/jurisprudencia/integra.do?rowid=321732038079320300167751396358&tipo=acordao_eproc","date":"2024-11-14","written_by":"independent","quote":"houve um alerta de desmatamento na plataforma Mapbiomas"},{"kind":"court document","citation":"Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina (TJSC), 4ª Câmara Criminal. Apelação Criminal nº 5004590-41.2023.8.24.0015 (Canoinhas), Rel. Des. Subst. Mauricio Cavallazzi Povoas. Judgment of 6 February 2025. Appeal denied and conviction upheld.","title":"Apelação Criminal nº 5004590-41.2023.8.24.0015 (Canoinhas), Rel. Des. Subst. 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Agravo Interno em Apelação nº 5001089-98.2023.8.24.0041, Rel. Des. Jairo Fernandes Gonçalves. Judgment of 2 September 2025. Internal appeal denied, which upheld the refusal to annul the infraction notices.","title":"Agravo Interno em Apelação nº 5001089-98.2023.8.24.0041, Rel. Des. Jairo Fernandes Gonçalves","url":"https://busca.tjsc.jus.br/jurisprudencia/integra.do?rowid=321757005613628867065412393771&tipo=acordao_eproc","date":"2025-09-02","written_by":"independent","quote":"o alerta gerado pela plataforma mapabiomas"},{"kind":"other","citation":"MapBiomas. Método MapBiomas Alerta (method page of the MapBiomas Alerta platform), Etapa 3: Refinamento nas imagens de alta e média resolução. 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