COMBINING SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING AND CENSUS DATA TO QUANTIFY AGRICULTURAL LAND USE CHANGE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
As pasture and cropland have replaced forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon, the creation of spatial explicit time series of land use is an important concern in modeling land change. Despite much progress in mapping deforestation using satellite remotely sensed data, little is known about the distrib...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
2013-02-01
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Series: | Revista Brasileira de Cartografia |
Online Access: | http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistabrasileiracartografia/article/view/43816 |