 The study used remote sensing satellite images and aerial survey to identify 6.3 thousand hectares of soybean planting in deforested areas during the soy moratorium period, which reduced the need for aerial survey by almost 80 percent. The initiative has likely inhibited the expansion of soybean frontier in the Amazon biome, but it is too early to attribute recent low deforestation rates solely to the soy moratorium. This article was authored by Bernardo Machado-Pires, Daniel Furlan-Ameral, Leandro Fabiani, and others.