| Título | Mapping land use of tropical regions from space. |
| Autores | Carlos Souza Jr.
Carlos M. |
| Ano de publicação | 2006 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0606804103 |
Souza Jr., C. 2006. Mapping land use of tropical regions from space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 103 (39): 1461-1462.
Resume
This is a commentary on Morton et al article “Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Besides the comments, it presents a forest monitoring program that integrates de approach developed by Morton et al with other techniques and tools already developed. It also indicates future research activities and land-use policy applications that will be facilitated by the remote-sensing techniques developed by Morton et al : a) improving carbon flux models; b) licensing, command control, and law enforcement; c) agribusiness market regulation, and d) modeling deforestation dynamics.