@Article{RobertsMichSoar:2003:StLaLa,
               author = "Roberts, Dar A. and Michael, Keller and Soares, Jo{\~a}o Vianei",
          affiliation = "{University of California} and USDA Forest Service, International 
                         Institute of Tropical Forestry and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Studies of land-cover, land-use, and biophysical properties of 
                         vegetation in the Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere experiment in 
                         Amazonia",
              journal = "Remote Sensing of Environment",
                 year = "2003",
               volume = "87",
               number = "4",
                pages = "377--388",
                month = "Nov.",
             keywords = "Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere (LBA), Amaz{\^o}nia, cerrado, 
                         monitoring, secondary vegetation, tropical forest, satellite data, 
                         aboveground biomass, habitat fragmentation, rain-forest, JERS-1, 
                         SAR, AVHRR data, deforestation.",
             abstract = "We summarize early research on land-cover, land-use, and 
                         biophysical properties of vegetation from the Large Scale 
                         Biosphere Atmosphere (LBA) experiment in Amazonia. LBA is an 
                         international research program developed to evaluate regional 
                         function and to determine how land-use and climate modify 
                         biological, chemical and physical processes there. Remote sensing 
                         has played a fundamental role in LBA in research planning, 
                         land-cover mapping and in long-term monitoring of changes in 
                         land-cover and land-use at multiple scales. This special issue 
                         includes 12 papers that cover a range in spatial scales from 
                         regional mapping to local scales that cover only a portion of a 
                         Landsat scene. Several themes dominate, including land-cover 
                         mapping with an emphasis on wetlands and second-growth forest, 
                         evaluation of pasture sustainability and forest degradation and 
                         the impact of land-cover change on stream chemistry. New 
                         techniques introduced include automated Monte Carlo unmixing 
                         (AutoMCU) and several new approaches for mapping land-cover. A 
                         diversity of sensors are utilized, including ETM+, IKONOS, SPOT-4, 
                         Airborne P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and L-band SAR. 
                         Census data are fused with an existing land-cover map to generate 
                         spatially explicit estimates of land-use from historical data. 
                         Several papers include important, new field measures of species 
                         composition, forest structure and biomass in mature forest and 
                         secondary succession.",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
                  doi = "10.1016/j.rse.2003.08.012",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2003.08.012",
                 issn = "0034-4257",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "1-s2.0-S0034425703002001-main.pdf",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2003.08.012",
        urlaccessdate = "05 maio 2024"
}