Deforestation in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

  • Released Wednesday, May 6, 2026
View full credits

Forty decades of agricultural expansion in Bolivia have completely transformed the landscape. This time series zooms in on a region east of Santa Cruz, where soybean producers cleared tropical dry forests to make way for farms. The broad green expanse is replaced with striking geometric patterns of rectangular fields, protective windbreaks, and radial settlements.

A natural-color Landsat time series of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, spanning from 1985 to 2025, showing extensive deforestation in the region.

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

This page is related to the following missions:

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.

This page was originally published on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM EDT.