V. Zalles

TL;DR: The most spatially detailed historical record of satellite imagery available is employed to show that the area of intensive row cropping in Brazil nearly doubled from 2000 to 2014 mainly because of the repurposing of pastures rather than conversion of natural vegetation.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that between 2000 and 2019, most soybean expansion in South America was on pastures converted originally for cattle production, especially in the Brazilian Amazon, where 9% of forest loss was converted to soybeans by 2016.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors created the first global 30-m resolution satellite-based map of annual forest loss due to fire and matched the mapped area of forest loss to the reference area obtained using a sample-based unbiased estimator, thus enabling mapbased area reporting and trend analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper , the first results from a project aimed at annual multidecadal land monitoring providing critical information for tracking global progress towards sustainable development are presented, where the global 30m spatial resolution dataset quantifies changes in forest extent and height, cropland, built-up lands, surface water, and perennial snow and ice extent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that human impact on the continent's land surface, specifically land use conversion and natural land cover modification, expanded by 268 million hectares (Mha), or 60%, from 1985 to 2018.