North Carolina State University has used historical aerial imagery captured past times the Corona spy satellite inwards the 1960's & 1970's to rail the loss of the Atlantic Forest. The Atlantic Forest is a rainforest located inwards the edge surface area betwixt Argentina, Brazil, together with Paraguay. Over 85% of the Atlantic Forest has straight off been lost to deforestation.
The Making of a Forest is an Esri floor map which uses iii 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 past times the Brazilian authorities inwards the 1950's & 1980's together with Landsat satellite imagery dating dorsum to the 1970's.
As you lot progress through The Making of a Forest you lot tin persuasion the fixed-wing imagery together with satellite imagery from dissimilar decades overlaid on operate past times of a map of the Atlantic Forest. This imagery shows how the parts of the rainforest which are straight off within the Brazilian together with Argentinian national parks inwards the surface area are real healthy. Outside of the national parks what was i time the Atlantic Forest is straight off mainly farmland.
