There's a series of GIFs from Google Earth's Landsat satellite images available - that's the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, above. The picture quality isn't great, but the degree of change is pretty clear. You can also see a series showing urban growth around the world here.
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Amazon deforestation - as seen from space
There's a series of GIFs from Google Earth's Landsat satellite images available - that's the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon, above. The picture quality isn't great, but the degree of change is pretty clear. You can also see a series showing urban growth around the world here.
Labels:
Amazon basin,
Brazilian rain forest,
Iowa,
Landsat,
The Atlantic,
urban sprawl
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