Mapping the Amazon: Deforestation
One feature that appears in this mosaic of images showing the Amazon River is tree-clearing that happened between two seasons.
Scientists listed worked as a team on Mosaicking Software and Mosaic Production.
Viewing two seperate seasons of tree clearing
Viewing two seperate seasons of tree clearing
Viewing two seperate seasons of tree clearing
Video slate image reads, "Mosaic zoom to tree-clearing area".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Data Processing was done by Alaska SAR Facility, Advanced Computing Technology Applications for SAR Interferometry and Imaging Science http://pat.jpl.nasa.gov/public/SAR/, Global Rainforest Mapping Project CD-ROM Requests http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/Sciences/Forest/order.html
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Animator
- Stuart A. Snodgrass (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- Bruce Chapman (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- David Curkendall (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Tony Freeman (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Craig Miller (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Herb Siegel (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Paul Siqueira (NASA/JPL CalTech)
- Kathya Zamora (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, March 14, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[JERS-1]
ID: 46
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