@InProceedings{Krug:2000:MoBrAm,
               author = "Krug, Thelma",
                title = "Monitoring the brazilian amazon gross deforestation",
                 year = "2000",
                pages = "73--98",
         organization = "Reunion Latinoamericana sobre los Bosques y la Mitigacion del 
                         Cambio Climatico.",
             keywords = "ESTUDOS INTEGRADOS DO MEIO AMBIENTE, AMAZONIA (REGIAO), 
                         MONITORAMENTO AMBIENTAL, DESMATAMENTO, DESFLORESTAMENTO, PRODES, 
                         FLORESTAS, FORESTS, DEFORESTATION, ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING.",
             abstract = "PRODES is considered to be the largest forest monitoring project 
                         in the world, based on orbital remote, sensing and Geographical 
                         Information System techniques. For many the National Institute for 
                         Space Research, INPE, has been promoting the interpretation of 
                         images from the US Landsat Satellite/Thematic Mapper to monitor 
                         the evolution of the extent and rate of the grass deforestation in 
                         the Brazilian Amazon. This effort has generated results for the 
                         period from 1974 to 1997 (based on the analysis of all scenes that 
                         cover the Amazon region)and an estimate for the period 1997/1998 
                         (based on a sample of scenes). The present study, covering the 
                         years of 1998/1999, provides the full estimate for the period 
                         1997/1998 and a provisional estimate for 1998/1999. In order to 
                         speed up the information to the Brazilian government, INPE 
                         provides, since 1997, estimates of the mean rate of gross 
                         deforestation based on the analysis of the sample of the TM 
                         Landsat scenes that cover the critical areas of deforestation 
                         (Arch of Deforestation). The first estimate using this approach, 
                         covering the period 1996/1997, was in error of 1.5 percent in the 
                         relation to estimate using all scenes that cover the Brazilian 
                         Amazonia. The second estimate, for the period 1997/1998 was 
                         delivered in January 1999. The final results for this period are 
                         presented on this report. The estimate was in error of 3.1 pecent 
                         in relation to the provisional estimate, indicating that the 
                         methodology adopted by the Institute is proving to be adequate to 
                         guide the public policies in the region. The presentation of these 
                         results clearly indicates the commitment of the Brazilian 
                         Government to treat with transparency the issue of deforestation 
                         in Amazon. Moreover, it gives subsides to understand the causes 
                         and to devise mechanisms to control the use of the forest 
                         resources. This study carried out under the {"}Environmental 
                         Monitoring of Amazonia{"} action of the {"}Science and Technology 
                         for the Management of Ecosystems{"} Program (PPA 200-2003/MCT).",
  conference-location = "Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO",
      conference-year = "14-15 ago. 2000",
                label = "962",
           targetfile = "INPE 8109.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "13 maio 2024"
}