North Carolina State University has used historical aerial imagery captured past times the Corona spy satellite inwards the 1960's & 1970's to rail the loss of the Atlantic Forest. The Atlantic Forest is a rainforest located inwards the edge expanse betwixt Argentina, Brazil, as well as Paraguay. Over 85% of the Atlantic Forest has immediately been lost to deforestation.
The Making of a Forest is an Esri even map which uses 3 unlike sources to visualize how the rainforest has shrunk over the end 70 years. As good every minute using historical imagery from the Corona satellite the North Carolina State University analyzed historical aerial photography captured past times the Brazilian regime inwards the 1950's & 1980's as well as Landsat satellite imagery dating dorsum to the 1970's.
As yous progress through The Making of a Forest yous tin laissez passer notice thought the fixed-wing imagery as well as satellite imagery from unlike decades overlaid on overstep of a map of the Atlantic Forest. This imagery shows how the parts of the rainforest which are immediately within the Brazilian as well as Argentinian national parks inwards the expanse are really healthy. Outside of the national parks what was 1 time the Atlantic Forest is immediately mainly farmland.
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