Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above - NASA Earth …
Dec 19, 2019 · Scientists have used satellites to track the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest for several decades — enough time to see some remarkable shifts in the pace and location of clearing.
ArcGIS - Amazon Deforestation Map
ArcGIS - Amazon Deforestation Map
2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of …
Mar 21, 2022 · Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of the Amazon were lost last year, mostly in Brazil and Bolivia. The mapping data shine a light on the different causes of deforestation in each country, including agriculture, cattle ranching and road construction.
"We are killing this ecosystem": the scientists tracking the Amazon…
Aug 24, 2023 · Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.
Deforestation of the Amazon - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Oct 19, 2023 · This essential cycle within the Amazon effects areas as far away as the United States (Amazon Aid Foundation, 2020). This map presents a time lapse of evapotranspiration rates above the Amazon and surrounding areas from the year 2000 to the Present.
Map: See how much of the Amazon forest is burning, how it …
Aug 29, 2019 · See how much of the Amazon is burning, how it compares to other years. Deforestation rates across the Amazon have spiked this year, driving the devastating blazes. Our maps show the story.
Collection - Amazon Deforestation - NASA Earth Observatory
Mar 28, 2024 · Large numbers of deforestation-related fires burned in the Amazon rainforest, while uncontrolled wildfires blazed in savanna and grassland ecosystems in central Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Published Feb 19, 2021
A New Tool for Tracking Amazon Fires - NASA Earth Observatory
Aug 19, 2020 · The map at the top of this page depicts all of the fires that satellites detected in key parts of Amazonas and Pará states between June 1 and August 3, 2020. The major roadways that run through the rainforest had large clusters of deforestation fires (red) and occasional understory forest fires (light green).
NASA SVS | Tracking Amazon Deforestation
Apr 19, 2021 · Today's deforestation across the Amazon frontier is tractors and bulldozers clearing large swaths to make room for industrial-scale cattle ranching and crops. Landsat satellite data is used to map land cover in Brazil with a historical perspective, going back to 1984.
MAAP #187: Amazon Deforestation & Fire Hotspots 2022
Jun 27, 2023 · 2022 Amazon Forest Loss Base Map. Deforestation and fire hotspots across the full Amazon biome. Data: UMD/GLAD, ACA/MAAP.