Title:	Mapping banana and peach palm in diversified landscapes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest with Sentinel-2.
Authors:	SOARES, V. B. PARREIRAS, T. C. FURUYA, D. E. G. BOLFE, E. L. NECHET, K. de L.
Affiliation:	VICTÓRIA BEATRIZ SOARES, UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS; TAYA CRISTO PARREIRAS, UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS; DANIELLE ELIS GARCIA FURUYA; EDSON LUIS BOLFE, CNPTIA; KATIA DE LIMA NECHET, CNPMA.
Date Issued:	2025
Citation:	Agriculture, v. 15, n. 19, 2052, Oct. 2025.
Description:	Mapping banana and peach palm in heterogeneous landscapes remains challenging due to spatial heterogeneity, spectral similarities between crops and native vegetation, and persistent cloud cover. This study focused on the municipality of Jacupiranga, located within the Ribeira Valley region and surrounded by the Atlantic Forest, which is home to one of Brazil’s largest remaining continuous forest areas. More than 99% of Jacupiranga’s agricultural output in the 21st century came from bananas (Musa spp.) and peach palms (Bactris gasipaes), underscoring the importance of perennial crops to the local economy and traditional communities. Using a time series of vegetation indices from Sentinel-2 imagery combined with field and remote data, we used a hierarchical classification method to map where these two crops are cultivated. The Random Forest classifier fed with 10 m resolution images enabled the detection of intricate agricultural mosaics that are typical of family farming systems and improved class separability between perennial and nonperennial crops and banana and peach palm. These results show how combining geographic information systems, data analysis, and remote sensing can improve digital agriculture, rural management, and sustainable agricultural development in socio-environmentally important areas.
Thesagro:	Agricultura Comunidade Rural Banana Musa sp
NAL Thesaurus:	Agriculture Vegetation index Time series analysis Rural communities
Keywords:	Agricultura digital Índice de vegetação Vale do Ribeira Digital agriculture Ribeira Valley Multitemporal
ISSN:	2077-0472
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.3390/ agriculture15192052
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPTIA)