Table 5. Comparison between types of human clearing in natural woodlands (2001–2012) identified from the sample and 2013 land use according to TerraClass Cerrado.
Cell entries of the confusion matrix denote the number of sample pixels (1 and 0.5 loss) in each category.
|
Human clearing of natural woodlands (current study) |
TerraClass Cerrado | ||||||||
| Pasture |
Agriculture (annual and perennial) |
Mosaic of land uses |
Forestry |
Natural vegetation |
Water | No data | Total | ||
| Agroindustrial clearing |
Pasture | 115 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 160 |
| Crops | 25.5 | 73.5 | 0 | 3 | 9.5 | 0 | 1 | 112.5 | |
| Trees | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Small-scale clearing | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Construction | Roads | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dam construction | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | |
| Mining | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 146 | 77 | 2 | 6 | 61 | 4 | 1 | 297 | |