In ammaciel/lucCalculus: Land Use Change Calculus

Introduction

Brazil, more than any other country in the world faces the challenge of balancing agricultural production and environmental protection [@Gil:2015]. Historically, forest conversion has begun with small-scale exploration, as subsistence agriculture, followed by consolidation within large-scale cattle ranching operations or abandonment to secondary forest [@Morton:2006]. But, in the last decade, the expansion of large-scale mechanised agriculture at the forest frontier has introduced as a potential new pathway for loss of forest [@Morton:2006]. This has generated a debate over the impact of pasture and cropland expansion to deforestation and, consequently, on the economy [@Arvor:2013]. Thus, we contributed to the scientific debate on the subject, as we propose methods for improving the extraction of information about land use change.