Geotechnology Applied to Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics and Occurrence of Forest Fires on Indigenous Lands in Cerrado-Amazonia Ecotone
, Rodrigo Sobreira Alexandre 3, Plinio Antonio Guerra Filho 4,*, Rosane Gomes da Silva 5, Marks Melo Moura 3, Evandro Ferreira da Silva 6, Samuel Ferreira da Silva 3, Saira G. de Oliveira Santos Rodrigues Silva 7, Raphael Maia Aveiro Cessa 8, Washington Amaral Ferreira 1 and Fabio Gonçalves Marinho 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This study analyzes the temporal dynamics of vegetation on indigenous lands in the serrado / Amazon ecotone in Mato Grosso State, Brazil and its relationship with rainfall and fire, which have certain significance for understanding and evaluating vegetation behavior and its relationship with forest fire. The specific suggestions are as follows: (1) the use of Geotechnology in the title is inappropriate. (2) In Figure 1, the boundaries of 3 and 4 are missing. (3) In the text, many citations are not standardized. The serial number of references should be placed at the end of the sentence or after the author. (4) In the discussion, the future research should be prospected.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Very interesting and well structured paper that does not require further changes in method or structure in my opinion. The English language could perhaps be improved but I leave this choice to the Editor.
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Reviewer 3 Report
This study is an interesting application of the MODIS burned area, MODIS NDVI, and TRMM precipitation datasets to evaluate the relationship overtime on Indigenous lands. The figures are particularly well-designed and the datasets are well explained. Figure 4 is particularly beautiful but could use a thorough explanation in the corresponding figure caption. Most pressingly, there needs to be significantly more engagement with existing literature throughout lines 101-112 and the methods section (sections 2.4, 2.5) to justify the statistical analyses that the authors made. Typically when working with multi-temporal ecological data in remote sensing studies, we try to avoid linear regressions unless it is well-justified with similar studies. For these reasons, I would suggest that the authors revise and resubmit with those changes made. It is hard to make any further comments about the paper's contributions until those changes are addressed, but I think the paper has a valuable contribution once it achieves those changes.
I also would like to note that the authors should consider capitalizing the first letter of "Indigenous" throughout the paper, as it is a form of respect for those people and their lands.
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript has improved greatly through the authors' revisions and addressing of the comments.
Now that the caption of Figure 4 has been sufficiently lengthened and described, I would request that the authors similarly explain every other figure in the caption. The result would be figure captions that could be standalone from the text explaining them. Most pressingly, explain the four images in Figure 1 and Figure 2, the six panels of Figure 5.
After those minor edits, the manuscript will be ready for acceptance from my perspective.
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