Remote Sensing Images to Detect Soy Plantations in the Amazon Biome-The Soy Moratorium Initiative

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1074-1088

  Rudorff, Bernardo F T ^a   Adami, Marcos ^a   Risso, Joel ^a   de Aguiar, Daniel Alves ^a   Pires, Bernardo ^b   Amaral, Daniel ^b   Fabiani, Leandro ^c   Cecarelli, Izabel ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries   (Brazil)

^c Parque Tecnológico UNIVAP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon forest; Deforestation; Modis; Soy moratorium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864364988     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4051074     Document Type: Article

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