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Towards a set of agrosystem-specific cropland mapping methods to address the global cropland diversity
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06)
Accurate cropland information is of paramount importance for crop monitoring. This study compares five existing cropland mapping methodologies over five contrasting Joint Experiment for Crop Assessment and Monitoring (JECAM) ...
Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach
(Elsevier, 2013-10)
Previous estimates of the land area available for future cropland expansion relied on global-scale climate, soil and terrain data. They did not include a range of constraints and tradeoffs associated with land conversion. ...
Cropland / pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America
(IOP Publishing, 2015-04)
Latin America has the planet?s largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid agriculturalexpansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion replaced forests, as shownby many local ...
The Amazon Frontier of Land-Use Change: Croplands and Consequences for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, 2010)
The Brazilian Amazon is one of the most rapidly developing agricultural frontiers in the world. The authors assess changes in cropland area and the intensification of cropping in the Brazilian agricultural frontier state ...
The expansion of the sugarcane in the hydrographic basin from Rio Brilhante, Mato Grosso do Sul state: the use of NDVI technique as an instrument for evidencing territorial dynamics
(Univ Federal Espirito Santo, 2017-07-01)
SaThe areas of sugarcane cultivation have expanding, often at the expense of the agricultural and pasture areas. Under this perspective, this manuscript aims to present a methodological guide in order to identify and to ...