The Soy Moratorium in the Amazon Biome Monitored by Remote Sensing Images

The Soy Moratorium in the Amazon Biome Monitored by Remote Sensing Images

The Soy Moratorium is a pledge agreed to by major soybean companies not to trade soybean produced in deforested areas after 24th July 2006 in the Brazilian Amazon biome. The present study aims to identify soybean planting in these areas using the MOD13Q1 product and TM/Landsat-5 images followed by a...

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Main Authors: Bernardo Machado Pires, Daniel Furlan Amaral, Leandro Fabiani, Marcio Pupin Mello, Maurício Alves Moreira, Bernardo Friedrich Theodor Rudorff, Daniel Alves Aguiar, Marcos Adami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2011-01-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
MODIS
satellite images
aerial survey
soybean
Brazilian Amazon
deforestation
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/1/185/

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