Summary
The study uses a unique, spatially extensive 9-year (2005–2013) ground reference dataset to generate land cover maps to assess agricultural land use in the Mato Grasso state of Brazil for the 2001–2014 crop years. It applies the maps to an evaluation of forest and agricultural intensification dynamics before and after the Soy Moratorium (SoyM), a governance effort enacted in July 2006 to halt deforestation for the purpose of soy production in the Brazilian Amazon.