Spy Satellites Spy Shrinking Pelting Forest

North Carolina State University has used historical aerial imagery captured yesteryear the Corona spy satellite inwards the 1960's & 1970's to runway 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 straightaway been lost to deforestation.

The Making of a Forest is an Esri even map which uses 3 dissimilar sources to visualize how the rainforest has shrunk over the concluding lxx years. As good equally using historical imagery from the Corona satellite the North Carolina State University analyzed historical aerial photography captured yesteryear 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 flaming sentiment the fixed-wing imagery as well as satellite imagery from dissimilar decades overlaid on piece of employment yesteryear of a map of the Atlantic Forest. This imagery shows how the parts of the rainforest which are straightaway within the Brazilian as well as Argentinian national parks inwards the expanse are real healthy. Outside of the national parks what was i time the Atlantic Forest is straightaway mainly farmland.