@Article{MilareGiarEsca:2024:BuArOc,
               author = "Milare, Gisele and Giarolla, Ang{\'e}lica and Escada, Maria 
                         Isabel Sobral",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in 
                         the Matopiba region, Brazil",
              journal = "Applied Geography",
                 year = "2024",
               volume = "166",
                pages = "e103243",
                month = "May",
             keywords = "Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado, Fire regime, MCD64A1 v006, Wildfire.",
             abstract = "Wildfires have been causing negative effects on ecosystems and 
                         rural communities. Among rural communities, the agrarian reform 
                         settlement projects have registered fires resulting from 
                         agricultural management inside and outside their areas. In this 
                         context, our objective was to analyze 821 settlement projects in 
                         the Matopiba region to explore the spatial-temporal dynamics of 
                         burned area occurrences. For this, we used the burned area data 
                         from MCD64A1 v006, from 2001 to 2021, and estimated the total 
                         burned area and its percentage for each settlement project per 
                         month and per year, and the frequency and trend. Based on these 
                         characteristics, we classified each settlement project to identify 
                         patterns. We identified a temporal pattern, with inter-annual 
                         variations, associated with the dry season. Also, the extension of 
                         the burned area increased significantly in the years of drought 
                         anomaly. Settlement projects with high and low fire frequency 
                         coexist in the same region. We also identified a small cluster 
                         with a positive trend in the northeast of the Matopiba region 
                         related to the surrounding agriculture expansion area. The 
                         classification based on burned area, trend and frequency is useful 
                         to select priority settlement projects for fire prevention 
                         actions.",
                  doi = "10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103243",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103243",
                 issn = "0143-6228",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "1-s2.0-S0143622824000481-main.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "26 maio 2024"
}