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Carlos M. Souza is affiliated with the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment in Brazil. Their research focuses on environmental science, with a significant contribution to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work often addresses topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Economic and Environmental Valuation, and Remote-Sensing Image Classification.

Carlos M. Souza has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Anais Congresso Sul-Americano de Resíduos Sólidos e Sustentabilidade
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • The "international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
  • Sociedade & natureza

Their recent papers reflect ongoing interests in land use dynamics, ecosystem monitoring, and remote sensing technologies. Notable recent publications include:

  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Satellite-based estimates reveal widespread forest degradation in the Amazon, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Automatic Mapping of Center Pivot Irrigation Systems from Satellite Images Using Deep Learning, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Medium Spatial Resolution Mapping of Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Across Multiple Decades From Landsat, 2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing

The scientist regularly collaborates with several co-authors, including Eric L. Bullock, Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson, Alexander Charles Lees, and Jos Barlow. These collaborations have contributed to expanding the scope of research on land cover change, forest degradation, and remote sensing applications.

Best Publications

  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

    Carlos M. Souza;Julia Z. Shimbo;Marcos R. Rosa;Leandro L. Parente

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests

    Mark A. Cochrane;Ane Alencar;Mark D. Schulze;Carlos M. Souza

  • Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

    Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Jos Barlow;Gareth D. Lennox;Joice Ferreira;Erika Berenguer

  • Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

    Christopher P. Barber;Mark A. Cochrane;Carlos M. Souza;William F. Laurance

  • Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends

    Jose A. Marengo;Carlos M. Souza;Kirsten Thonicke;Chantelle Burton

  • Combining spectral and spatial information to map canopy damage from selective logging and forest fires

    Carlos M. Souza;Dar A. Roberts;Mark A. Cochrane

  • Mapping forest degradation in the Eastern Amazon from SPOT 4 through spectral mixture models

    Carlos Souza;Laurel Firestone;Luciano Moreira Silva;Dar Roberts

  • Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests.

    Jeffrey Q. Chambers;Gregory P. Asner;Douglas C. Morton;Liana O. Anderson

  • Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier

    Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Ana S. L. Rodrigues;Robert M. Ewers;Luke Parry;Carlos Souza

  • Ten-Year Landsat Classification of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Carlos M. Souza;João V. Siqueira;Marcio H. Sales;Antônio V. Fonseca

  • A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network

    Toby A. Gardner;Toby A. Gardner;Joice Ferreira;Jos Barlow;Alexander C. Lees

  • Natural Resource Management in the Brazilian Amazon An integrated research approach

    Christopher Uhl;Paulo Barreto;Adalberto Veríssimo;Edson Vidal

  • Satellite‐Based Estimates Reveal Widespread Forest Degradation in the Amazon

    Eric L. Bullock;Curtis E. Woodcock;Carlos Souza;Pontus Olofsson

  • Linear mixture model classification of burned forests in the Eastern Amazon

    M. A Cochrane

  • Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon

    Stephen Perz;Silvia Brilhante;Foster Brown;Marcellus Caldas

  • Options for monitoring and estimating historical carbon emissions from forest degradation in the context of REDD

    Martin Herold;Rosa María Román-Cuesta;Danilo Mollicone;Yasumasa Hirata

  • Improving spatial distribution estimation of forest biomass with geostatistics: A case study for Rondônia, Brazil

    Marcio H. Ribeiro Sales;Carlos M. Souza;Phaedon Kyriakidis;Dar A. Roberts

  • Mapping canopy damage from understory fires in Amazon forests using annual time series of Landsat and MODIS data

    Douglas C. Morton;Ruth S. DeFries;Ruth S. DeFries;Jyoteshwar Nagol;Carlos M. Souza

  • An alternative approach for detecting and monitoring selectively logged forests in the Amazon

    C. Souza;P. Barreto

  • A sourcebook of methods and procedures for monitoring and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with deforestation, gains and losses of carbon stocks in forests remaining forests, and forestation.: GOFC-GOLD Report version COP18-1

    Frederic Achard;Sandra Brown;Michael Brady;Ruth DeFries

  • Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests.

    M. A. Cochrane;A. Alencar;M. D. Schulze;C. M. Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Cochrane
Mark A. Cochrane University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Martin Herold
Martin Herold Wageningen University & Research
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Walker
Robert Walker University of Florida
Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Toby A. Gardner
Toby A. Gardner Stockholm Environment Institute
Douglas C. Morton
Douglas C. Morton Goddard Space Flight Center
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Stephen G. Perz
Stephen G. Perz University of Florida

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