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Mapping Forest Loss with Landsat

The opening of the Landsat data archive and a partnership with Google has allowed researchers to track the fine details of forest change around the world.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Mapping Forest Loss with Landsat.

NASA Earth Observatory maps by Joshua Stevens using global forest change data from Hansen et al./UMD. Caption by Mike Carlowicz and Holli Riebeek.

Published May 7, 2015
Data acquired 2000 - 2013

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Model