Using MODIS to detect cropping frequency variation in mechanized agriculture in Amazonia.
2007
BROWN, J. C. | KASTENS, J. | WARDLOW, B. | JEPSON, W. | COUTINHO, A. C. | VENTURIERI, A. | LOMAS, J. PRICE, K. | John Christopher Brown (University of Kansas); Jude Kastens ( University of Kansas); Brian Wardlow (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Wendy Jepson (Texas A&M University; Alexandre Camargo Coutinho (Embrapa Monitoramneto por Satélite); Adriano Venturieri.
Policy makers concerned with managing rapidly developing agriculture on the Amazon frontier currently have no Basin-wide spatial and temporal information on exactly when and how soubean and other mechanized annual cropping have developed in the region. To address this, we present a reliminary evaluation of the use of moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 250 m vegetation index (VI) time-series data to detect croppping frequency in two municipalities, Vilhena, Rondônia, and Santarém, Pará.
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