Estimates of Deforestation Rates in Rural Properties in the Legal Amazon

Abstract This study aimed to assess the potential of artificial neural networks (ANN) as a tool to estimate deforestation rates in the municipality of São Félix do Xingu, PA, Brazil. The following input variables were used: deforestation rate until 2014, slope, altitude, Euclidean distance to roads...

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Main Authors: Fabrício Assis Leal, Eder Pereira Miguel, Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro 2020-05-01
Series:Floresta e Ambiente
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2179-80872020000200115&tlng=en