A monitoring program by the Secretariat of Agriculture of São Paulo State covering 772,000 hectares and 19,846 agricultural properties over 20 years. The dataset likely contains results from farm diagnostics, erosion location, and rehabilitation efforts evaluated through remote sensing and water quality indicators. It documents the transformation of degraded land into conservation agriculture, including specific results from municipalities like Vera Cruz and Ocauçu.
Use Cases
- Analyzing land use change from degraded pasture to conservation agriculture based on the described rehabilitation efforts.
- Evaluating the impact of soil conservation laws on water quality indicators mentioned in the description.
- Modeling erosion patterns and rehabilitation outcomes based on farm diagnostics and remote sensing data.
- Assessing the effectiveness of no-tillage and integrated crop-livestock systems on property occupancy rates.
Strengths
- Covers a large spatial scale of 772,000 hectares.
- Documents a long-term monitoring program spanning 20 years.
- Includes results from specific interventions, such as a 31% increase in occupancy rate for recovered pastures.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Secretariat of Agriculture of São Paulo State
- Collection Method
- Farm diagnostics, remote sensing, and water quality monitoring.
- Time Range
- 2007 to 2019 (with a program history of 20 years)
- Geography
- Rio do Peixe Watershed, São Paulo State, Brazil, with specific mentions of Vera Cruz, Ocauçu, and Marília municipalities.