The Landsat Project was started to study the land and land processes. The program is now working on Landsat 7.
We are able to compare older data sets to newer ones. Using a Landsat images of Bolivia taken in 1984 and 2000, we can see the dramatic deforestation of the Bolivian rainforest.
This still image shows that even with the understanding the rain forests role in
ecology of the earth, even in the year 2000, the rain forest is still receding.
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