Monitoring sugarcane expansion from space

Cost-effective ways to map the expansion of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil over long times and large areas. That is in short what Brazilian researcher Rubens Lamparelli and his Dutch colleague Ramon Hanssen have been developing in their joint project. They based their solution on a smart combination of Earth observation data collected by satellites.

Further information on Brazil-Netherlands collaboration can be found at the Netherlands Innovation Attache Network Brazil page.