Spatiotemporal mapping of soybean plantations in Rondônia, Western Brazilian Amazon

ABSTRACT Although soybean production has been increasing in the state of Rondônia in the last decade, soybean planted area has been estimated indirectly using secondary datasets, which has limited understanding of its spatiotemporal distribution patterns. This study aimed to map and analyze spatial...

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Main Authors: Olívia Bueno da COSTA, Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli MATRICARDI, Marcos Antonio PEDLOWSKI, Mark Alan COCHRANE, Luiz Cláudio FERNANDES
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2017-03-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672017000100029&tlng=en