COMBINING SENSORS IN LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY: IMAGERY-BASED AND FARM-LEVEL ANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN-DRIVEN FOREST FRAGMENTATION / Combinando sensores em geoecologia: sensoriamento remoto e análise sócio-econômica de propriedades rurais no estudo da fragmentação florestal antrópica

Although remote sensed methods provide reliable basis for identifying the amount and spatialconfiguration of deforestation, they cannot solely explain its underlying causes. For that, weneed to complement the imagery analysis with socio-economic data from household or farmlevelstudies, because these...

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Main Authors: Diogo de Carvalho Cabral, Simone R. Freitas, Judith T. Fiszon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2007-12-01
Series:Revista Sociedade & Natureza
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Online Access:http://www.sociedadenatureza.ig.ufu.br/include/getdoc.php?id=449&article=161&mode=pdf