Remote sensing images to detect soy plantations in the Amazon biome - the Soy Moratorium Initiative

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Published 2012 by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. Authored by Rudorff, B.T.F., Adami, M. , Risso, J. , De Aguiar, D.A., Pires, B. , Amaral, D. , Fabiani, L. , Cecarelli, I. , Adami, M., Risso, J., Pires, B., Amaral, D., Fabiani, L. and Cecarelli, I.

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The Soy Moratorium is an initiative to reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon biome based on the hypothesis that soy is a deforestation driver. Soy planted in opened areas after July 24th, 2006 cannot be commercialized by the associated companies to the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE) and the National Association of Cereal Exporters (ANEC), which represent about 90% of the Brazilian soy market. The objective of this study is to present the evaluation of the fourth year of monitoring new soy plantations within the Soy Moratorium context.

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