Combining remote sensing and household level data for regional scale analysis of land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-386

  de Soler, Luciana Souza ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazon; Brazil; Deforestation; Household survey; Land cover change; Remote sensing; Rond nia State

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649908164     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0107-7     Document Type: Article

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