@InProceedings{SongHAPLADP:2023:SaMoSo,
               author = "Song, Xiao-Peng and Hansen, Matthew and Adusei, Bernard and 
                         Pickering, Jeffrey and Lima, Andr{\'e} and Adami, Marcos and Di 
                         Bella, Carlos M. and Potapov, Peter",
          affiliation = "{University of Maryland College Park} and {University of Maryland} 
                         and {University of Maryland} and {University of Maryland} and 
                         {University of Maryland} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidad de Buenos Aires} and 
                         {University of Maryland}",
                title = "Satellite Monitoring of Soybean Expansion Across South America",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2023",
         organization = "AGU FAll Meeting",
            publisher = "AGU",
             abstract = "More than half of the worlds soybeans are produced in South 
                         America, where soybean cultivation has been rapidly expanding over 
                         the past decades, often replacing natural vegetation, pasture, and 
                         other cropland. Satellite images and probability samples were 
                         employed to generate 30 m resolution soybean maps from 2001 to 
                         2022. Soybean expansion was found in all major biomes including 
                         the Amazon, Atlantic Forests, Cerrado, Chaco, Chiquitania and 
                         Pantanal. This dataset and the annual global forest loss data were 
                         integrated to analyze the role of soybeans in driving 
                         deforestation. Across the continent, 9% of forest loss was 
                         converted to soybean between 2001 and 2016. Soybean-driven 
                         deforestation was concentrated at the active frontiers, nearly 
                         half located in the Brazilian Cerrado. Results suggest that 
                         efforts to limit future deforestation must consider how soybean 
                         expansion may drive deforestation indirectly by displacing pasture 
                         or other land uses. The annual soybean maps over South America are 
                         freely available at: 
                         https://glad.earthengine.app/view/south-america-soybean.",
  conference-location = "San Francisco, CA",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec. 2023",
             language = "en",
        urlaccessdate = "05 maio 2024"
}