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Laerte Guimarães Ferreira

Laerte Guimarães Ferreira

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
19267
World Ranking
7238
National Ranking
49

Overview

Laerte Guimarães Ferreira is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with specific contributions to several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Engineering, and Soil Science.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, particularly in Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Rural Development and Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, and Soil erosion and sediment transport.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Laerte Guimarães Ferreira include:

  • Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985, 2021, Science Advances
  • Woody Aboveground Biomass Mapping of the Brazilian Savanna with a Multi-Sensor and Machine Learning Approach, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Quality assessment of the PRODES Cerrado deforestation data, 2020, Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • Assessing the Wall-to-Wall Spatial and Qualitative Dynamics of the Brazilian Pasturelands 2010-2018, Based on the Analysis of the Landsat Data Archive, 2022, Remote Sensing

The frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Laerte Guimarães Ferreira include:

  • Leandro Parente
  • Vinícius Vieira Mesquita
  • Luís Baumann
  • Vanessa Cristina Lopes
  • Claudinei Oliveira dos Santos

The scope of their research integrates diverse applications of remote sensing technologies and environmental monitoring approaches aimed at understanding land use dynamics and ecosystem management. Their attention to data quality and spatial analysis methods contributes to studies addressing landscape changes, biomass estimation, deforestation, pastureland dynamics, and human impacts on natural environments.

Best Publications

  • Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices

    A Huete;K Didan;T Miura;E.P Rodriguez

  • 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

  • Land cover mapping of the tropical savanna region in Brazil.

    Edson E. Sano;Roberto Rosa;Jorge L. S. Brito;Laerte G. Ferreira

  • Mapeamento semidetalhado do uso da terra do Bioma Cerrado

    Edson Eyji Sano;Roberto Rosa;Jorge Luís Silva Brito;Laerte Guimarães Ferreira

  • The Cerrado into-pieces: habitat fragmentation as a function of landscape use in the savannas of central Brazil.

    Fábio M.V. Carvalho;Paulo De Marco Júnior;Laerte G. Ferreira

  • Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach

    Eric Lambin;Eric Lambin;H.K. Gibbs;L. Ferreira;R. Grau

  • Toward an integrated monitoring framework to assess the effects of tropical forest degradation and recovery on carbon stocks and biodiversity

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Iris Roitman;T. Mitchell Aide;Ane Alencar

  • Increasing importance of precipitation variability on global livestock grazing lands

    Lindsey L. Sloat;James S. Gerber;Leah H. Samberg;William K. Smith;William K. Smith

  • Estimating greenhouse gas emissions from cattle raising in Brazil

    Mercedes M. C. Bustamante;Carlos A. Nobre;Roberto Smeraldi;Ana P. D. Aguiar

  • Spatial and temporal probabilities of obtaining cloud-free Landsat images over the Brazilian tropical savanna

    E. E. Sano;L. G. Ferreira;G. P. Asner;E. T. Steinke

  • Predicting Soil Albedo from Soil Color and Spectral Reflectance Data

    D. F. Post;A. Fimbres;A. D. Matthias;E. E. Sano

  • Assessing the seasonal dynamics of the Brazilian Cerrado vegetation through the use of spectral vegetation indices

    L. G. Ferreira;A. R. Huete

  • Seasonal landscape and spectral vegetation index dynamics in the Brazilian Cerrado: An analysis within the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazônia (LBA)

    L.G Ferreira;H Yoshioka;A Huete;E.E Sano

  • Surface roughness effects on soil albedo

    A. D. Matthias;A. Fimbres;E. E. Sano;D. F. Post

  • Rapid expansion of human impact on natural land in South America since 1985

    Viviana Zalles;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter V. Potapov;Diana Parker

  • Assessing the pasturelands and livestock dynamics in Brazil, from 1985 to 2017: A novel approach based on high spatial resolution imagery and Google Earth Engine cloud computing

    Leandro Parente;Vinícius Mesquita;Fausto Miziara;Luis Baumann

  • Mapping Brazilian savanna vegetation gradients with Landsat time series

    Marcel Schwieder;Pedro J. Leitão;Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante;Laerte Guimarães Ferreira

  • Satellite-based hydrological dynamics of the world's largest continuous wetland

    Natasha Costa Penatti;Teodoro Isnard Ribeiro de Almeida;Laerte Guimarães Ferreira;Arielle Elias Arantes

  • Distribution Patterns of Burned Areas in the Brazilian Biomes: An Analysis Based on Satellite Data for the 2002–2010 Period

    Fernando Moreira de Araújo;Laerte Guimarães Ferreira;Arielle Elias Arantes

  • Analysis of Cerrado Physiognomies and Conversion in the MODIS Seasonal-Temporal Domain

    Piyachat Ratana;Alfredo R. Huete;Laerte Ferreira

  • Assessing Pasture Degradation in the Brazilian Cerrado Based on the Analysis of MODIS NDVI Time-Series

    Osvaldo José Ribeiro Pereira;Laerte Guimarães Ferreira;Flávia dos Santos Pinto;Leandro Baumgarten

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfredo Huete
Alfredo Huete University of Technology Sydney
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante
Mercedes M. C. Bustamante University of Brasília
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Michael W. Palace
Michael W. Palace University of New Hampshire
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Ane Alencar
Ane Alencar Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro National Institute for Space Research
Christopher Potter
Christopher Potter University of Cambridge

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