Souza Jr, Carlos M; Marengo, José; Ferreira, Bruno; Ribeiro, Júlia; Schirmbeck, Lucimara W; Schirmbeck, Juliano; Hirye, Mayumi; Cunha, Ana; Wiederhecker, Helga C; Latuf, Marcelo O. Amazon severe drought in 2023 triggered surface water loss. Environmental Research Climate, 2024. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/ad7c71 Abstract The Amazon underwent a severe austral springtime drought attributed to the onset of El Nino

Stanimirova, Radost; Tarrio, Katelyn; Turlej, Konrad; McAvoy, Kristina; Stonebrook, Sophia; Hu, Kai-Ting; Arévalo, Paulo; Bullock, Eric L.; Zhang, Yingtong; Woodcock, Curtis E.; Olofsson, Pontus; Zhu, Zhe; Barber, Christopher P.; Souza, Casrlos M.; Chen, Shijuan; Wang, Jonathan A.; Mensah, Foster; Calderon-Loor, Marco; Hadjikakou, Michalis; Bryan, Brett A.; Graesser, Jordan; Beyene, Dereje L.; Mutasha, Brian; Siame, Sylvester;

Souza, Carlos M.; Oliveira, Luis; Filho, Jailson S.; Ferreira, Bruno; Fonseca, Antônio V.; Siqueira, João V. Landsat sub-pixel land cover dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon. Frontiers, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1294552/full. Abstract: The Brazilian Amazon land cover changes rapidly due to anthropogenic and climate drivers. Deforestation and forest disturbances associated with logging and fires, combined with extreme droughts,

Botelho, J., Jr.; Costa, S.C.P.; Ribeiro, J.G.; Souza, C.M., Jr. Mapping Roads in the Brazilian Amazon with Artificial Intelligence and Sentinel-2. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 3625. https://doi.org/10.3390/ rs14153625 Abstract: This study presents our efforts to automate the detection of unofficial roads (herein, roads) in the Brazilian Amazon using artificial intelligence (AI). In this region, roads

Friedl MA, Woodcock CE, Olofsson P, Zhu Z, Loveland T, Stanimirova R, Arevalo P, Bullock E, Hu K-T, Zhang Y, Turlej K, Tarrio K, McAvoy K, Gorelick N, Wang JA, Barber CP and Souza C (2022) Medium Spatial Resolution Mapping of Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Across Multiple Decades From Landsat. Front. Remote

Turpo Cayo, E.Y.; Borja, M.O.; Espinoza-Villar, R.; Moreno, N.; Camargo, R.; Almeida, C.; Hopfgartner, K.; Yarleque, C.; Souza, C.M., Jr. Mapping Three Decades of Changes in the Tropical Andean Glaciers Using Landsat Data Processed in the Earth Engine. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 1974. https:// doi.org/10.3390/rs14091974 Abstract: The fast retreat of the tropical Andean glaciers (TAGs)

Sist, P., Piponiot, C., Kanashiro, M., Pena-Claros, M., Putz, F., Schulze, M., Verissimo, A., & Vidal, E. 2021. Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions. Forest Ecology and Management (Volume 496, 15 September 2021, 119440). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119440 Abstract In 2006, the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) started an ambitious program to establish forest concessions so as to provide a

Jaffé, Rodolfo; Nunes, Samia; Santos, Jorge Filipe Dos; Gastauer, Markus; Giannini, Tereza C.; Nascimento Jr., Wilson; Sales, Marcio; Souza Jr., Carlos M.; Souza-Filho, Pedro W.; Fletcher Jr., Robert J. Forecasting deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to prioritize conservation efforts. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 16, Number 8, 29 July 2021. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ac146a Abstract: As Amazon deforestation

Sales, Marcio H. R.; Bruin, Sytze de; Souza, Carlos; Herold, Martin. Land Use and Land Cover Area Estimates From Class Membership Probability of a Random Forest Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 60, 09 June 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3080083 Abstract: Estimates of the area of land cover classes or land change are frequently calculated

Ritaumaria Pereira, Lisa L. Rausch, Aline Carrara, and Holly K. Gibbs “Extensive Production Practices and Incomplete Implementation Hinder Brazil’s Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements in Pará”, Tropical Conservation Science 13(1), (8 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/1940082920942014   Abstract Global attention to the role of cattle production in Amazon deforestation led to the development of new public and private-sector supply