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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The authors would like to express their gratitude to CAPES 
and DAAD, respectively a Brazilian and a German 
governmental research agencies, for supporting the 
ECOWATCH project, and Embrapa (World Bank funded 
Agtec Project), for providing the necessary data.