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

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

The Soy Moratorium is an initiative to reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon biome based on the hypothesis that soy is a deforestation driver. Soy planted in opened areas after July 24th, 2006 cannot be commercialized by the associated companies to the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Indus...

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Main Authors: Leandro Fabiani, Daniel Amaral, Daniel Alves de Aguiar, Bernardo Pires, Joel Risso, Bernardo F. T. Rudorff, Marcos Adami, Izabel Cecarelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-05-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
Soy Moratorium
deforestation
Amazon forest
MODIS
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/5/1074

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