Take the area around Mirny, Russia. It's instantly recognizable, not for any landmark, but for when it was shot: Google's newest camera, during wildfire season, sun hanging like a hazy orange disk. See it once, you'll never mistake it again.
I moved my system into Google Docs – my Keynote had swelled to 1,375 slides – and started tagging landscapes on Map-Making.app. Veracruz, Mexico: gray gravel roads, trees with red bark. Eastern Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: flat red roads, corn, dark red soil, a scatter of trees. And on and on.
This Mato Grosso farmland.
It is located here, in Brazil.
Mato Grosso is filled with similar landscapes.
It is characterized by its flatness, lack of trees, red soil, and slight haze.
Cotton, soybeans, and corn are usually growing here — sometimes freshly harvested, sometimes still in the field.