Vegetational succession assessment is an important step for better management practices, providing relevant quantitative and qualitative information. With the advancements of remote sensing algorithms and access to data, land use and land cover (LULC) monitoring has become increasingly feasible and important for the evaluation of changes in the landscape at different spatial and temporal scales. This study aims to analyze the vegetation succession achieved by a project funded by the Brazilian Environmental Ministry (Ministério do Meio Ambiente, in Portuguese) intended to recover degraded areas. A 2014 and a 2019 LULC map was generated using high-resolution (10 cm) images. Given the great challenge of classifying high-resolution images, three classification algorithms were compared. The techniques to regenerate degraded areas were efficient to increase arboreal vegetation area by more than 30% between 2014 and 2019. Land cover and land use change monitoring is of paramount importance to strengthen sustainable practices, especially in the highly threatened Atlantic Forest biome. This study also shows that funding opportunities are essential for projects that make such actions possible, including the present research and the analysis of environmental regeneration.
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