Abstract:The process of agricultural expansion has been a risk to native forests around the world. Brazil is the largest producer of soybeans in the world. Sorriso, a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso (Midwest), is known as the capital of Brazilian agribusiness and is located between the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. In view of this, the study aims to analyze the relationship between the growth of soybean cultivation and forest degradation. For this purpose, Landsat images reclassified by the MapBiomas project were… Show more
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