Compared with disturbance maps produced at annual or multi-year time steps, monthly
map** of forest harvesting can provide more temporal details needed for studying the …

Deforestation and fires in the Amazon are serious problems affecting climate, and land use
and land cover (LULC) changes. In recent decades, the Amazon biome area has suffered …

Abstract The Amazon Forest, possessing the highest carbon stock (CS) per hectare in Brazil,
is confronting deforestation and increased greenhouse gas emissions as a result of changes …

This research evaluates the relationship between the official and unofficial road network and
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon within and around 332 indigenous lands from 2008 to …

The goal of this research was to analyze the drivers of fire occurrence in the Caatinga
Biome, located in the northeastern part of Brazil. Thirty-four explanatory variables of fire …

The objective of the study is to perform the spatial analysis of the conditioning factors for the
increase in the incidence rate of dengue cases in municipalities located in the Amazon …

The construction and expansion of highways aiming to improve the integration of the most
isolated regions in Brazil facilitated the access to many inhabited areas in the Amazon …

Fire is one of the significant drivers of vegetation loss and threat to Amazonian landscapes. It
is estimated that fires cause about 30% of deforested areas, so the severity level is an …

Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting
deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate the …

Smoke particulate matter emitted by fires in the Amazon Basin poses a threat to human
health. Past research on this threat has mainly focused on the health impacts on countries …