Mapping Mining Areas in the Brazilian Amazon Using MSI/Sentinel-2 Imagery (2017)

Although mining plays an important role for the economy of the Amazon, little is known about its attributes such as area, type, scale, and current status as well as socio/environmental impacts. Therefore, we first propose a low time-consuming and high detection accuracy method for mapping the curren...

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Main Authors: Felipe de Lucia Lobo, Pedro Walfir M. Souza-Filho, Evlyn Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo, Felipe Menino Carlos, Claudio Clemente Faria Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-07-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/8/1178