The Brazilian Savannah, or Cerrado, has gained vital importance in the discussions about sustainable land development after the conversion of half of its natural vegetation. For the last two decades, most of the agricultural expansion in Brazil has occurred in this biome. This is related to technological improvements in agriculture as well as to environmental compliance policies that have effectively reduced soybean expansion in the Brazilian Amazon biome. Therefore, remotely sensed imagery, pattern recognition and image processing techniques have been employed to analyze and monitor the land dynamics over Cerrado. In this work, we present a brief review on Land Use and Land Cover mapping (LULC) in the Cerrado biome from an application perspective: natural vegetation, pastureland, agriculture, and deforestation. In this review we selected some studies whose results could contribute to the development of more detailed and accurate LULC maps for the Cerrado biome.

巴西大草原或塞拉多在其一半的自然植被转化后，在有关可持续土地开发的讨论中变得至关重要。在过去的二十年里，巴西的大部分农业扩张都发生在这个生物群落中。这与农业技术改进以及有效减少巴西亚马逊生物群落大豆扩张的环境合规政策有关。因此，已采用遥感图像，模式识别和图像处理技术来分析和监测塞拉多的土地动态。在这项工作中，我们从应用的角度简要回顾了塞拉多生物群落中的土地利用和土地覆盖制图 (LULC)：自然植被、牧场、农业和森林砍伐。