Mato Grosso, Brazil, ground reference data for crop years 2005-2013 (Dataset)

Abstract

The points associated with ‘ground reference set 1’ and ‘ground reference set 2’ identify fields where agricultural cover information was obtained by Embrapa through farmer interviews. The points associated with ‘supplemental pasture/cerrado’ were identified using aerial and satellite imagery to provide additional ground reference samples for the pasture/cerrado data class.

See the following publication for more information (please cite this reference when using these data):

Kastens, J.H., J.C. Brown, A.C. Coutinho, C.R. Bishop, and J.C.D.M. Esquerdo (2017). Soy moratorium impacts on soybean and deforestation dynamics in Mato Grosso, Brazil. PLoS ONE, 12(4): e0176168. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176168 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176168 )

Annual attributes beginning with ‘plos’ provide a binary indicator for whether or not the sample was used for development of the 14-year Mato Grosso land cover map set described in the PLOS ONE study (1 = used, 0 = not used). For additional information regarding class structure determination and data preparation and filtering, see the following:

Brown, J.C., J.H. Kastens, A.C. Coutinho, D.C. Victoria, and C.R. Bishop (2013). Classifying Multiyear Agricultural Land Use Data from Mato Grosso Using Time-Series MODIS Vegetation Index Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 130(3): 39-50. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.009 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.11.009)