The livestock activity accounts for a large part of the transformations in land cover in the
world, with pasture areas being the main land use in Brazil and the main livelihood of the …

The São Francisco River Basin (SFRB) is one of the largest basins in Brazil and hosts
several economic activities. However, it is under socioeconomic and environmental …

The Cerrado is the richest savanna and is undergoing one of the planet's most rapid land
transformations for pasture and agriculture; around 45% of the biome has been deforested …

Abstract The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America,
located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities …

This study proposes a workflow for land use and land cover (LULC) classification of
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) Phased Array type L-band Synthetic …

Freshwater ecosystems are essential to human and wildlife survival. They harbor a wide
biodiversity that contributes to ecosystem services. In the ecosystem of the Brazilian …

The prominent role assumed by Brazil in the global environmental agenda in recent years
has prompted the creation of legal provisions and the formulation of environmental policies …

Cerrado is the second largest biome in Brazil, covering about 2 million km 2. This biome has
experienced land use and land cover changes at high rates due to agricultural expansion so …

Time series of satellite images have been widely used in a range of applications, specially
involving the green biomass monitoring in the Earth surface. A set of land surface products …

Pastures make up a large part of the agricultural land in Brazil and in the world. Specifically,
this research aimed to understand how the pasture areas in the rural settlements in the State …