Earth ID: 2096

Bolivian Deforestation from 1984 to 2000

Visualizations by Stuart A. Snodgrass Released on April 9, 2001

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.

Visualization Credits

Stuart A. Snodgrass (GST): Lead Animator
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
Darrel Williams (NASA/GSFC)

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Mission:
Landsat

Data Used:

Landsat-7/ETM+

2000

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Landsat-5/TM

1984

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Bolivian Deforestation

Keywords:
DLESE >> Forestry
DLESE >> Human geography
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Human Dimensions >> Habitat Conversion/Fragmentation >> Deforestation
GCMD >> Location >> Bolivia
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0