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Long-term deforestation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon-Uncovering historic frontier development along the Cuiabá-Santarém highway
Description: The great success of the Brazilian deforestation program "PRODES digital" has shown the importance of annual deforestation information for understanding and mitigating deforestation and its consequences in Brazil. However, there is a lack of similar information on deforestation for the 1990s and 1980s. Such maps are essential to understand deforestation frontier development and related carbon emissions. This study aims at extending the deforestation mapping record backwards into the 1990s and 1980s for one of the major deforestation frontiers in the Amazon. [Source: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.07.005
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Source: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Publish Date: 2/1/2016
Reading Level: Expert
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