Abstract: uantitative understanding of Congo River basin hydrological behavior is poor because of the basin?s limited hydrometeorological observation network. In cases such as the Congo basin where ground data are scarce, satellite-based ...

Abstract: Mechanized agriculture is rapidly expanding in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the past five years, land area planted with soybeans, the state?s principal crop, has increased at an average rate of 19.4% yr?1. Drivers ...

Abstract: Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is one of the most important variables in land surface modeling and also provides a continuous field to complement discrete land cover classification. A global 8-km FVC dataset for 1982?2000 ...

Abstract: The Brazilian government annually assesses the extent of deforestation in the Legal Amazon for a variety of scientific and policy applications. Currently, the assessment requires the processing and storing of large volumes ...