MapBiomas data is public, open, and free under Creative Commons license CC-CY-SA and with reference to the source, observing the following format: Project MapBiomas Uruguay - Collection [version] of the Annual Land Cover and Land Use Maps, accessed in [date] through the link: [LINK] “.

"Project MapBiomas Uruguay - is a multi-institutional initiative to generate annual cover and land use maps from automatic classification processes applied to satellite images." The full description of the project can be found at  http://uruguay.mapbiomas.org

Access here the reference scientific publication of the MapBiomas Uruguay and MapBiomas Pampa Sudamericano initiative: Baeza et al, 2022. Two decades of land cover mapping in the Río de la Plata grassland region: The MapBiomas Pampa initiative. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 28, 100834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100834

In the case of scientific publications, it is suggested to contact the MapBiomas Uruguay and MapBiomas Pampa Sudamericano team to see if there are already publications in progress on the proposed topic.