New Map Yields Better View of Forest Changes

Open-access data from the NASA-USGS Landsat mission and cloud computing make for a highly detailed view of gains and losses in global and regional tree cover since 2000.

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NASA Earth Observatory map by Kevin Ward, using data from Hansen et al, the University of Maryland, and Google Earth Engine. Caption by Kate Ramsayer, NASA Earth Science News Team.

Published November 16, 2013
Data acquired January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2012

Source:

Landsat 7 > ETM+