%0 Conference Proceedings
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%T Satellite Monitoring of Soybean Expansion Across South America
%D 2023
%A Song, Xiao-Peng,
%A Hansen, Matthew,
%A Adusei, Bernard,
%A Pickering, Jeffrey,
%A Lima, André,
%A Adami, Marcos,
%A Di Bella, Carlos M.,
%A Potapov, Peter,
%@affiliation University of Maryland College Park
%@affiliation University of Maryland
%@affiliation University of Maryland
%@affiliation University of Maryland
%@affiliation University of Maryland
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Universidad de Buenos Aires
%@affiliation University of Maryland
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%@electronicmailaddress marco.adami@inpe.br
%B AGU FAll Meeting
%C San Francisco, CA
%8 11-15 Dec. 2023
%I AGU
%S Proceedings
%X 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.
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